Prevalence
Consequences
Myths
Reasons
100
This disease, attributed to tobacco use, is the number one cause of preventable death in the United States.
What is lung cancer?
100
1 in 4 people die who die as a result of smoking, have not smoked a single cigarette themselves; they have just been exposed to this.
What is secondhand smoke?
100
Safe or healthy cigarettes exist. (T/F)
What is true?
100
This constituent of cigarettes is the primary cause of it's addictive nature.
What is nicotine?
200
The demographic areas in which children and young teens are more likely to begin smoking at early ages are?
What is poor areas of those with low socioeconomic status?
200
These are chronic effects that smoking can have on your skin.
What is wrinkles and premature aging?
200
People believe smoking makes you look thinner and therefore better, but what adverse effects end up actually degrading smokers' physical apperances?
What is yellowing of teeth and formation of lines and wrinkles in the skin?
200
Although smoking has long-term detrimental effects, this is the percieved risk smokers have for their habit.
What is low?
300
For the years of 2007 and 2008, a survey was conducted on persons aged 18 to 25 concerning tobacco usage within the past month. Ohio was among the states with the (lowest or highest) percentages of young people smoking at 48.20 to 54.37%.
What is highest?
300
This is the lethal dose of tobacco in humans.
What is none exist?
300
Pregnant women addicted to cigarettes may believe that their habit is to hard to kick, and it won't affect their baby that much. However, what defect can their child develop as a result of their smoking?
What is SIDS, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome?
300
Nicotine's affect in the brain can be enhanced by these.
What is other drugs in cigarettes such as acetaldehyde?
400
This type of awareness announcement may be a contribution to the decline in the usage of tobacco products over the last decade.
What is public service announcements?
400
Other than health-related reasons, what are other ways that smoking can negatively impact your life?
What is the expenses; loss of control of your body (cravings); degrading of your appearance, etc.
400
This is the reason why although flitered cigarettes have less nicotine than regular cigarettes, after smoking them the person still reaches the same amount of nicotine in their body.
What is they end up smoking more filtered cigarettes to get the same effect the regular cigarettes gave them?
400
This is the mechanism through which nicotine acts that causes a smoker to be addicted to cigarettes.
What is activation of the reward pathway?
500
This is the change in percentage of cigarette usage from high school to college.
What is it doubles?
500
Propylene glycol, terpentine and butane are chemicals commonly found in your garage. These are present in brake fluid, paint thinner and gasoline respectively. Where else can all of these corrosive chemicals be found?
What is cigarettes?
500
Although smokers believe their habit is their own decision, it effects others and their health as well. There are two types of secondhand smoke, one is called mainstream smoke which is exhaled from the smoker. This is the other type that comes from the end of the lighted cigarette.
What is sidestream smoke?
500
Cigarette smoking becomes addicting because of its nicotine component. Nicotine increases this neurotransmitter's activity in the brain within the reward pathway.
What is dopamine?
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