- Cigarette smoking has been identified as the most important source of preventable morbidity and premature mortality in the United States and the world.
- Smoking-related diseases cause an estimated 440,000 American deaths each year.
- Smoking costs the United States over $150 billion annually in health care costs.
- A 2004 Study by the CDC's National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion found that cigarette smoke contains over 4,800 chemicals, 69 of which are known to cause cancer.
- Women account for 39 percent of all smoking deaths.
As mentioned earlier, people knew that smoking is harmful but they didn't know how harmful it is.They will only know the severity of it once their body is going worst.
Aim and Objectives
- To increase the level awareness of people towards smoking.
- To let people aware the harmful/risky of smoking.
- To let people know how severity it is especially second-hand smoke.
Motivation
People do not know how serious it is according to the information from online sources or even in media publications such as TV, radio and so on. So, an installation that created to let them knowing how worst is their lungs situation now.
Ideation and Concept
A 3D lung will hang up the wall and randomly pick 2 persons to do comparison. A non-smoker and a smoker blow the air through the hole one after another one. Once the air blowing into the lung, the smoke detector circuit will detect how high is the level of smoke and therefore will lighten up the lung. if the lung is fully lighten, you have to beware and better quit smoking right now. Of course, that will be list out the percentage infected of your lung.
Review, Analysis and Precedence Studies
Harmful Effects of Smoking
Every year hundreds of thousands of people around the world die from diseases caused by smoking cigarettes - Smoking KILLS.
One in two lifetime smokers will die from their habit. Half of these deaths will occur in middle age.
Tobacco smoke also contributes to a number of cancers.
The mixture of nicotine and carbon monoxide in each cigarette you smoke temporarily increases your heart rate and blood pressure, straining your heart and blood vessels.
This can cause heart attacks and stroke. It slows your blood flow, cutting off oxygen to your feet and hands. Some smokers end up having their limbs
amputated.Tar coats your lungs like soot in a chimney and causes cancer. A 20-a-day smoker breathes in up to a full cup (210 g) of tar in a year.
Changing to low-tar cigarettes does not help because smokers usually take deeper puffs and hold the smoke in for longer, dragging the tar deeper into their lungs.
Carbon monoxide robs your muscles, brain and body tissue of oxygen, making your whole body and especially your heart work harder. Over time, your airways swell up and let less air into your lungs.
Smoking causes disease and is a slow way to die. The strain of smoking effects on the body often causes years of suffering. Emphysema is an illness that slowly rots your lungs. People with emphysema often get bronchitis again and again, and suffer lung and heart failure.
Lung cancer from smoking is caused by the tar in tobacco smoke. Men who smoke are ten times more likely to die from lung cancer than non-smokers.
Heart disease and strokes are also more common among smokers than non-smokers.
Smoking causes fat deposits to narrow and block blood vessels which leads to heart attack.
Smoking causes around one in five deaths from heart disease.
In younger people, three out of four deaths from heart disease are due to smoking.
- Cigarette smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of low birth weight, prematurity, spontaneous abortion, and perinatal mortality in humans, which has been referred to as the fetal tobacco syndrome.
This circuit uses a very simple approach to detecting smoke in the air. Quite simply, it uses a bulb as a light source, and an LDR (Light Dependent Resistor) as a light detector. As fire smoke comes between the bulb and LDR, the resistance of the LDR changes, which in turn trigger an alarm.
This probably isn't an ideal approach given that ambient light levels are likely to cause false alarms, however it is an interesting experiment. Just please don't set any fires while experimenting. And please don't rely on it as a replacement for a real fire alarm device.
This probably isn't an ideal approach given that ambient light levels are likely to cause false alarms, however it is an interesting experiment. Just please don't set any fires while experimenting. And please don't rely on it as a replacement for a real fire alarm device.
The overall installation will be in serious form to let people aware how harmful is the smoking.
