17. What are the financial consequences of smoking? Can you find examples in the
Video?

At $4/pack at 1 pack/day, it costs $28/week, $120/month and $1,440/year. You can buy a lot of other things with this money such as a Play Station, a computer or a down pay-ment on a car.

VIDEO EXAMPLES:
Brooke Bartlett: teenage smoker: "It's definitely a problem smoking. If I smoke a pack a day, that's like $30/week you know, and that definitely, definitely takes a toll". (see Video Script pgs 39-40)

Bill Stone: adult smoker: "You know how much money I could save every year if I just stopped smoking cigarettes? If I took the money that I put on cigarettes and I put it in the bank, I could retire in 5-10 years. I know this, and I still can't stop!" (see Video Script pgs 40-41)

*18. What are the hazards of breathing second hand smoke? (i.e., breathing other people's
smoke). Can you find an example in the Video?

Second hand smoke (also called environmental tobacco smoke) is the mixture of smoke exhaled by the smoker and the smoke that comes off the burning end of the cigarette, cigar or pipe in between puffs. It contains over four hundred poisonous chemicals (such as benzene, formaldehyde and carbon monoxide) forty of which are linked to cancer. Breathing second hand smoke is associated with the following hazards: In pregnant women, miscarriage; in infants and children; low birth weight, sudden infant death, impaired growth and development of lung function, respiratory infections, middle ear infections and asthma; in adults, wheezing, bronchitis, asthma, coronary heart disease and lung cancer.

Second hand smoke is classified as a Group A (proven) carcinogen by the United States Environmental Protection Agency. It is responsible for approximately 3,000 lung cancer deaths and as many as 62,000 deaths from heart disease annually. Infants and children are at special risk. Each year, second hand smoke is associated with 7,500-15,000 hospitalizations for bronchitis or pneumonia, 700,000-1.6 million physician office visits for middle ear fluid, 8,000-26,000 new cases of asthma, 200,000-one million cases of asthma flare ups and 136-212 deaths in children 18 months or younger. Infants of mothers who smoke are more than twice as likely to die of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) than children of non-smoking mothers. Because of this, people who don't smoke are now increasingly speaking out for their right to breathe clean air and are increasingly objecting when other people smoke around them. (Source: American Lung Association).