Some ole Tobacco
The addictive drug found in tobacco leaves.
What is Nicotine ?
A thick, sticky, dark fluid produced when tobacco burns.
What is tar?
The type of alcohol in alcoholic beverages—is a powerful and addictive drug.
What is Ethanol?
Peer Pressure, Family , Media messages
What are factors that influences Alcohol use?
The immediate, temporary care given to an ill or injured person until professional medical care can be provided.
What is First Aid ?
A drug that increases the action of the central nervous system, the heart, and other organs.
What is a stimulant ?
A substance that causes physiological or psychological dependence.
What is an Addictive Drug?
A drug that slows the central nervous system.
What is a depressant ?
Harm to the driver and others.
Severely restricted driving privileges and/or immediate confiscation of a driver’s license.
Alcohol-related injuries,
Property damage, and death.
What are consequences of DWI?
Actions taken to prevent the spread of disease by treating all blood and other body fluids as if they contained pathogens.
What are universal Precautions ?
A cancer-causing substance.
What is Carcinogen?
Tobacco that is sniffed through the nose, held in the mouth, or chewed.
What is smokeless tobacco ?
The state in which the body is poisoned by alcohol or another substance and the person’s physical and mental control is significantly reduced.
What is intoxication?
A severe and potentially fatal physical reaction to an alcohol overdose. A
What is Alcohol Poisoning?
These are the first steps to take in an emergency situation.
What is Check, Call, and Care?
Another compound found in cigarette smoke, is a colorless, odorless, and poisonous gas that is taken up more readily by the blood than oxygen
What is Carbon Monoxide
Changes in brain chemistry,Increased respiration and heart rate,Dulled taste buds and reduced appetite,Bad breath and smelly hair, clothes, and skin.
What are the short term effects of tobacco use?
The excessive use of alcohol
What is Alcohol Abuse ?
A group of alcohol-related birth defects that include physical and mental problems?
What is Fetal Alcohol Syndrome?
Abrasion,Laceration,Puncture ,Avulsion
What are open wounds ?
Chronic bronchitis,Emphysema,Lung cancer,Coronary heart disease and stroke
What are the long term effects of tobacco use ?
Thickened, white, leathery-looking spots on the inside of the mouth that can develop into oral cancer.
What is leukoplakia?
The amount of alcohol in a person’s blood, expressed as a percentage.
What is Blood Alcohol Concentration?
Abuse, dependence, addiction
What are the stages of Alcoholism?
A burn in which the top several layers of skin are damaged. The skin will have blisters and appear blotchy.
What are second degree burns?