Alcohol Facts
The ounces in a standard drink.
What is 0.6?
Standard drink: amount of a beverage that contains 0.6 ounces of alcohol/14 grams
A driver with a blood alcohol of ________ would be considered over the legal limit in the United States.
This is the typical calorie content of one serving (14–17 grams) of alcohol?
What is 100-120 (7 cals/gram)?
7 calories per gram.
Alcohol in one drink supplies about 100 to 120 calories.
This is the primary reason people continue to use tobacco despite the health risks?
What is physical addiction to nicotine?
True or False:
E-Cigarettes are recommended by the FDA as a cigarette alternative.
What is false?
An 80-proof beverage contains this % of alcohol.
What is 40%?
Proof value: two times the percentage concentration.
True or False: Carbonation will increase the rate of alcohol absorption into the bloodstream.
What is true?
Carbonation – Carbonated alcoholic drinks increase the rate of alcohol absorption. This is because the pressure inside the stomach and small intestine force the alcohol to be absorbed more quickly into the bloodstream.
True or False:
A small portion of ingested alcohol is not metabolized and is excreted unchanged through the breath, urine, and sweat.
What is true?
True or False:
Some researchers believe nicotine is more physically addictive than cocaine and heroin.
What is true?
The smoke that smokers exhale is referred to as ________ smoke; and the smoke emitted from the burning end of the cigarette, cigar, or pipe is referred to as ________ smoke.
What is mainstream & sidestream?
EPA has designated environmental tobacco smoke (ETS)
a Class A carcinogen.
Surgeon General: there is no safe level of exposure.
Two types of ETS:
•Mainstream smoke: smoke exhaled by smokers.
•Sidestream smoke: smoke from the burning end of a cigarette, cigar, or pipe; unfiltered, it has more harmful chemicals.
Thirdhand smoke, which lingers on indoor surfaces, curtains, furniture, and dust, consists of toxic residues and chemicals.
Forms carcinogens that are then inhaled, absorbed, or ingested.
The psychoactive ingredient in alcoholic beverages.
What is ethyl alcohol?
This organ is most responsible for the metabolism of alcohol.
What is the liver?
This is the number of drinks considered binge drinking for men and women.
What is five (men) and four (women) in a single sitting (approximately two hours).
This is an example of a secondary reinforcement (smoking).
What is smoking when you studying, driving, drinking?
This cigarette additive is used to enhance nicotine absorption.
A regular drinker who used to experience the effect of alcohol after two drinks now requires at least four to get the same desired effect. This is known as
What is tolerance?
Tolerance is the body’s ability to adapt to toxic substances like alcohol. Tolerance varies from person to person, but some have a naturally high tolerance, while others may develop high tolerance through habitual drinking. A person with a high tolerance may appear sober to others when they are extremely impaired.
Alcohol is primarily absorbed into the bloodstream through this organ.
What is the small intestine?
True or False?
The rate of vaping has decreased among teens and young adults in the last 5 years.
What is false?
As of 2019, 27.5% of high schoolers currently use E-cigarettes. Young adults under the age of 30 are 10x more likely to use e-cigarettes when compared to adults over the age of 30.
This smoking cessation product has the LEAST number of reported side effects.
What is nicotine patches?
Benefits of quitting are immediate.
Sac State cessation services:
https://www.csus.edu/student-life/health-counseling/tobacco-free.html
This is the leading cause of cancer deaths among women
What is lung cancer?
You went out drinking with friends and had a few too many. You’re feeling the effects this morning. This intervention will sober you up the fastest.
There is no intervention that will sober you up.
A friend's blood alcohol concentration (BAC) is measured at 0.35%. This condition would be likely at this level.
What is a coma?
This is the average life-stage at which Americans begin to smoke or use smokeless tobacco.
What is mid-teens?
Nearly 90% of adult smokers reported that they started smoking by 18.
This is NOT a legal form of tobacco advertising.
What is television advertisements?
In 1970, Congress took their anti-smoking initiative one step further and passed the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act, banning the advertising of cigarettes on television and radio starting on 2 January 1971. In April 1970, President Nixon signed it into law.
Does it cost more or less to quit tobacco using best practice quitting services (i.e. patches, gum, therapy, apps, etc.).
What is more?
Nicotine Replacement Therapies, including patches, gum, lozenges, apps and therapy, cost less than packs of cigarettes and vape devices and liquids.