Long-Term
ETS
Tobacco
Benefits of Quitting
100
Tiny air sacs in the lungs are destroyed, making breathing extremely difficult, is the disease called...
What is emphysema?
100
ETS is the acronym for..
What is Environmental Tobacco Smoke?
100
The addictive drug found in tobacco leaves.
What is nicotine?
100
Senses of taste and smell improve.
What is in 48 hours?
200
Tar contained in tobacco smoke is harmful to lungs because it
What is "paralyzes cilia?"
200
Smoke from the burning end of a cigarette, pipe, or cigar.
What is sidestream smoke?
200
A colorless, odorless, and poisonous gas.
What is carbon monoxide?
200
Lung cilia regrow and coughing, sinus congestion, and shortness of breath decrease.
What is within "1 to 9 months"
300
A substance that causes psychological and physiological dependence.
What is addictive drugs?
300
Name a health risk that smokers pose to nonsmoking adults?
What is eye irritation, headaches, ear infections, and worsened asthma symptoms?
300
A thick, sticky, dark fluid produced when tobacco burns.
What is tar?
300
The risk of coronary heart disease is cut in half.
What is "within 1 to 9 months?"
400
Can leukoplakia develop into lung cancer?
What is NO?
400
Smoke that is exhaled from the lungs of a smoker.
What is mainstream smoke?
400
Tobacco that is sniffed through the nose, held in the mouth, or chewed.
What is smokeless tobacco?
400
Blood pressure and pulse rates drop. Body temperature in limbs return to normal.
What is "within 20 minutes?"
500
Nicotine contributes to plaque buildup in blood vessels, increasing the chance of....
What is Arteriosclerosis?
500
Children who are living with a smoker are twice as likely to develop...
What is lung cancer and poor health?
500
A drug that increases the action of the central nervous system, the heart, and other organs.
What is stimulant?
500
The risk of lung cancer and cancers of the throat, esophagus, and mouth is reduced by 50 percent. Stroke risk is also decreased.
What is "5 years?"
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