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| YOU ARE THE TARGET BIG TOBACCO: LIES, SCAMS - NOW THE TRUTH PROJECT MOVING TARGET YOUTH TOBACCO AWARENESS by Georgina Lovell |
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| The Famous "Tar Jar" Pack a day smokers inhale one quart of tar a year into their lungs. (C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, University of Michigan Health Systems) |
| In tobacco smoke, tar appears in what scientists call condensate (very fine particulates) and it is not easily seen - think of what hairspray looks like. It is inhaled a little at a time, with each puff of each cigarette. Tobacco tar leaves a residue which stains the teeth and fingers of smokers. A pack a day smoker inhales the tar contained in cigarette smoke on average of 200 times every day. Some of the tar is coughed up as the lungs try to clean themselves. Some of it remains in the lungs, to coat them with sticky brown-black residue, and over time this builds up to cause lung disease. Every cigarette smoked causes tar deposits in a smoker's lungs. Some comments from those who see the "tar jar" for the first time: From L.B.: "After you spoke to our class it helped me realize what the tobacco industry really think of us smokers. It also disgusted me when I saw that jar of tar. That will help me quit smoking every time I think of it." From T.R.: "Thank you for coming to our school to tell us what you learned about tobacco and smoking. I really disliked that bottle of tar." From A.S.: "What you had to say really bothered me. Thank you for talking to us and increasing our knowledge about the tobacco industry. That jar of tar made me feel sick." From A.N.: "That jar of tar totally convinced me to stop smoking. Wish me luck!" From J.D.: "I was sorry I missed your talk. I was away on the day you came to my class. I heard about the jar of tar and that sounds really awful. My mom died from smoking last year and it was so hard for me. I have smoked since I was 11 and I'm going to quit. I don't want my little sister to start. Thank you. I hope you come back so I can see you next time." |
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