Cigarettes and the Effects of Smoking

Biology, Health and Disease, Age 11-14, Age 14-16

Designed as a teacher led class activity or something you can issue to the pupils via email or your VLE as an independent learning activity...perhaps as stimulus material to help produce a leaflet about smoking? You click on sections of a cigarette to learn more about tar, nicotine, carbon monoxide and particulates. Includes video links and a progress check with 8 questions at the end. 15 slides


1SmokingWhat s the worst that could happen?Teachable.net 2009. Some rights reserved. 2So what s so bad about smoking?Click on each section of the cigarette to find out more. Come back here after each one then take a progress check when finished.Click here for a progress checkNicotineTarCarbon monoxideParticles3Nicotine is an addictive drug
It enters the blood and reaches the brain in seven seconds!
It provides short-term pleasure for the smoker (a quick fix)
It keeps people hooked on cigarettes4Tar contains over 4000 chemicals
37 of these cause cancer
Tar can cause permanent damage to alveoli (delicate air sacs in your lungs)
Feeling brave? Click here to see tar in the lungs
Tar prevents your cilia from working effectively
Click here to see an animation of how cilia deal with bits of dust or bacteria in the air5CancerTar causes cancer
It makes cells divide uncontrollably
They eventually form a lump
This is called a tumour
The lump keeps growing and causing damage
The cancer can also spread to