Vocabulary
The addictive chemical found in tobacco leaves.
What is nicotine?
General name of therapies that assist in quitting tobacco that use nicotine to do so.
What are nicotine replacement therapies?
Smoke that affects other individuals or pets in close proximity to the smoker.
What is second-hand smoke?
T/F: Young people are targeted by tobacco companies to replace the older smokers who quit or die.
What is True?
The percentage of people diagnosed with lung cancer who are smokers.
What is 90%?
The process that occurs in the body when nicotine is no longer used.
What is nicotine withdrawal?
FDA approved nicotine replacement therapies (NRT) available today.
What are nicotine patches, nicotine gum, nicotine lozenges, nicotine inhaler and nicotine nasal spray?
A type of addiction in which the body itself feels a direct need for a drug.
What is physical dependence?
The year Congress passed a law requiring all tobacco manufacturers to print health warnings.
What is 1965?
The percentage of smokers who die as a result of smoking.
What is 50%?
A colorless, odorless, poisonous gas produced when tobacco burns.
What is carbon monoxide?
The benefits of being tobacco free.
What are lowering the risk of lung cancer, heart disease, and stroke, improve cardiovascular health, athletic enhancement, sense of freedom, higher energy levels, healthier skin, fresher breath etc....?
Withdrawal symptoms may occur as soon as ____ minutes after the last cigarette.
What is 30?
The year a ban on tobacco ads on TV and radio (FCC regulated) went into effect.
What is 1971?
The percent of people alive 5 years after being diagnosed with lung cancer.
What is 25%?
The term for a cancer causing substance.
What is a carcinogen?
Things money spent on tobacco products can be spent on instead.
What are health, wellness, bills, vacation etc....?
T/F: Tobacco is the leading cause of preventable death and disease in the U.S.
What is true?
In 1990, the tobacco industry paid for advertising exposure in 100% of films in this rating.
What is PG-13?
This state has the lowest rate of tobacco use.
What is Utah?
The name for stress a person may experience due to stigma, prejudice & discrimination based on their ethnicity, race, sexual orientation, and/or gender identity.
What is minority stress?
Things that improve chances of being successful in tobacco cessation.
What are quit plan, counseling, NRT, family/friend support/encouragement....?
Health effects/conditions caused by tobacco use.
What are lung cancer, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, COPD etc....?
Populations specifically targeted by tobacco companies to encourage smoking.
What are youth, LGBTQ, racial and ethic communities?
Race/ethnic group that has the highest prevalance of tobacco users.
Who are Native American/Alaska Natives?