Tobacco
What is the legal age to buy tobacco products?
19
What is the legal age to buy and drink alcohol in Canada and in the United States?
19, 21, (18 in Quebec) The main reason for the age limit for buying alcohol in because of how is effects the brain development of adolescents and teens. (Mainly cognitive function, memory, impaired perception and ability to learn new things.
A period of time that can not be recalled due to excessive drinking is called what?
Blackout
Excessive alcohol intake can cause lesions in the digestive track that may also cause internal bleeding. These lesions are called ________.
Ulcers
What are the three types of alcohol?
Beer, wine, and liquor
What type of drug is tobacco?
Stimulant
What type of drug is alcohol?
Depressant
A person drinks a large amount of alcohol causing the central nervous system to shut down. What is this called?
Alcohol poisoning
long-term alcohol abuse damages this organ, it can become engulfed in scar tissue, which is called cirrhosis.
Liver. Every time a person drinks alcohol, some liver cells die. Prolonged abuse of alcohol can lead to fatty liver and/or cirrhosis of the liver or liver failure.
How much alcohol can the body eliminate in an hour?
approximately 1 serving (one glass of wine, one beer)
What is the addictive substance in tobacco?
Nicotine
Addiction to alcohol is what?
Alcoholism
Teens are the most vulnerable to this long-term effect caused by alcohol abuse.
Brain damage
Gastritis is the inflammation of the lining of this organ due to excessively abusing alcohol
Stomach
Stage of alcohol use where the user must have alcohol to function is __________.
Dependence/addiction
Name 4 different tobacco products.
cigarettes', cigars, vapes, hookah, chewing tobacco, etc. - All of which can lead to addiction and a variety of health problems.
Poor eating habits caused from high alcohol consumption can lead to ...
Malnutrition
Condition in which the lungs cannot inflate and hold air properly. Need assistance from an oxygen tank.
Emphysema
What organ is responsible for breaking down alcohol and turning it into energy, water and carbon dioxide?
Liver
When a person drinks to temporarily alleviate their stress is called __________.
Problem drinking
Name 4 health consequences of tobacco use.
Addiction, lung disease, cancer, hearth disease, stroke, asthma, mouth and esophagus ulcers or cancer, yellowing of teeth, mucosal lesions, bad breath, black tongue, among many others.
Wat is the difference between binge drinking and alcohol abuse?
Binge drinking = Drinking a large quantity of alcohol in a short period of time.
Alcohol abuse = using alcohol every day over a prolonged period of time.
Alcohol abuse and tobacco use can cause the heart to work harder and damage the lining of the arteries, this leads to _________.
High blood pressure
The organ that is effected by alcohol causing hypertension.
Heart
Cancer causing substances are called _________.
Carcinogens