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Education for the participants about the chemicals they have been exposed to while smoking.

Inform the participants there are over 5,000 chemicals in every cigarette. Use common term everyday terms when describing these additives:

  • Paint thinner
  • Insecticide
  • Materials used to make moth balls
  • Material used to fill holes in the road
  • Metal
  • Deadly poison
  • Materials used in batteries
  • Materials used to make dye
  • Materials used in embalming
  • Household cleaner
  • Rat poison
  • Lighter fluid
  • Material that comes out of your cars tail pipe
  • A cancer- causing radioactive element
  • Insecticide that has been banned from general household use

And 36 other known cancers causing additives. Explain that nicotine is the additive to the cigarettes that causes addition. The other additives are what cause the cancers, heart problems, emphysema, etc. 

 Ask for input from the participants now knowing this information.