SMOKING KILLS | Punjabi
Channel: Arvind Gupta
Date: 2015-12-13

This simple experiment graphically demonstrates the poisons contained in a cigarette. You will need a 2-litre plastic bottle. Make a hole near its lid and press fit the body of a pen with the cap. Close the pen lid and fill the bottle 3/4th with tap water. Make a hole in the bottle lid and then press fit the filter tip of the cigarette in the lid. Screw the lid on the bottle top. Light the cigarette tip and then open the pen lid so that the water drains out. The ejecting water will suck air from the top. But what will gather inside the bottle will be the white smoke from the cigarette. Soon the bottle will be filled with white smoke. Now remove the bottle lid. Take two layers of filter or toilet paper and tie it to the mouth of the bottle with a rubber band. Then blow-out through the pen so that the smoke is expelled from inside the bottle. Soon the smoky bottle will turn transparent. All the smoke would have passed through the filter paper sieve. Now open the filter paper to see the MUCK – the TAR and the NICOTINE which causes CANCER. This is what cigarettes do to your lungs. The message is simple: KICK THE STICK and QUIT SMOKING!

This work is supported by IUCAA (www.iucaa.ernet.in) and TATA Trust (www.tata.com/aboutus/sub_index/Tata-trusts)

Credits:,Ashok Rupner, Shivaji Mane, Jyoti Hiremath, Arvind Gupta, Vidula Mhaiskar, Kawal Preet Singh TATA Trust: Education is one of the key focus areas for Tata Trusts, aiming towards enabling access of quality education to the underprivileged population in India. To facilitate quality in teaching and learning of Science education through workshops, capacity building and resource creation, Tata Trusts have been supporting Muktangan Vigyan Shodhika (MVS), IUCAA's Children’s Science Centre, since inception. To know more about other initiatives of Tata Trusts, please visit www.tatatrusts.org