What's in a JUUL?
This insecticide and highly addictive substance is found in Juuls and cigarettes.
What is nicotine?
Also called dependency or uncontrolled habit
What is addiction?
What mysterious lung disease is causing respiratory and gastrointestinal symptoms, fever, fatigue, weight loss?
What is EVALI (E-Cig or Vaping product Associated Lung Illness)? This is a sudden and severe illness due to vaping.
T or F: Tobacco products can be purchased in Westchester County by anyone under age 18.
What is FALSE? In 2018, Westchester County raised the age of purchasing tobacco products, including ALL E-CIGARETTE PRODUCTS to 21. In addition, in December 2019, the President signed legislation raising the federal minimum age for sale of tobacco products from 18 to 21 years nationwide.
Vaping THC oil could be quite harmful to lunch health, for many reasons, including the severe effects of inhaling vitamin E acetate. What recent illness is associated with vaping THC?
What is EVALI (E-cigarette or vaping related lung injury)?
This chemical found in JUULs is also used to preserve bodies after death.
What is formaldehyde?
T or F: All of the scientific info on vaping that I need to know is already out there.
What is false? Scientists will need at least 20 years to see what the long term effects of vaping will be.
Which one causes cancer: cigarettes or Juuls?
What are both? Cigarettes and Juuls can cause cancer.
T or F: E-cigarettes contain tobacco.
What is FALSE? E-cigarettes do not contain tobacco, but they contain nicotine, which comes from tobacco. Because of this, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) classifies them as "tobacco products."
Is it legal to vape marijuana in New York State?
T of F: Vaping affects my mouth health?
A study found that adolescents who were first time e-cigarette users were __ times more likely to report cigaretter smoking, in just one year.
What is five? Teens who vape are 5 times more likely to start cigarette smoking in just one year.
This has over 600 ingredients and over 4000 chemicals are released when burned.
What are cigarettes?
T or F: Vapes can contain even more nicotine than regular cigarettes, whcih can harm the attention, memory, and brain development of young people.
What is TRUE?
T or F: There is no difference between smoking marijuana and vaping it.
What is false? Different from most plant-based marijuana, vaped marijuana tends to be much more potent. Long term effects include changes in perceptions and mood, lack of coordination, difficulty with thinking and problem solving, and disrupted learning and memory. The high potency has also proven to increase the risk of an accidental overdose. In addition, the hallucinogenic effects of the drug have been linked to paranoia, psuchosis, and hallucinations which can last for days.
T or F: Only some JUULs contain nicotine?
This drug found in all vapes and cigarettes can harm your brain growth, causing issues with attention, learning and increased risk of psychiatric disorders.
What is nicotine?
You could inhale up to 42 different and harmful chemicals when you use this.
What are vapes?
Does vaping increase risk for COVID-19 complications?
Yes! Smoking and vaping causes harm to the lungs, leaving lung tissue inflamed, fragile and susceptible to infection. The CDC has indentified smokers/vapers as a group of people at highter risk for severe illness if they contract the disease.
T or F: It's safe to vape marijuana: "It's just weed"
What is FALSE? Seriouse lung illnesses have been reported in some people who used e-cigarettes, especially those who vaped THC (the mind altering drug in marijuana).
T or F: People have died from vaping.
What is true? A man in 2018 died when a vaping device exploded. The medical examiner's office found the explosion fired two pieces of the vaping device into his head, causing death by "projectile wound of head." In addition, EVALI has caused 68 deaths, as of February 2020.
What is the illicit drug most frequently found in the blood of drivers who have been involved in vehicle crashes, including fatal ones?
What is marijuana?