Vocab
Health Effects
Facts
100
A complex mixture of over 4,000 gases and fine particles emitted by burning tobacco products and exhalations of smokers
What is Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS)?
100
The age group that is most negatively affected by ETS
What are children?
100
The term that means "cancer causing agent"
What is carcinogen?
200
The act of breathing in second-hand smoke
What is passive smoking?
200
Preexisting conditions that can be aggravated by ETS
What are allergy and/or heart disease symptoms?
200
ETS is the 3rd leading cause of this type of cancer
What is lung cancer?
300
The smoke that is exhaled by the smoker
What is mainstream smoke?
300
The disease that can be caused by pregnant women being exposed to ETS
What is sudden infant death syndrome?
300
The number of cigarettes equal to passive exposure to ETS over an eight-hour day
What is 1-3 cigarettes?
400
The smoke that enters the air from a burning cigarette, cigar, or pipe
What is sidestream smoke?
400
These measurements increase as smoke damages blood cells
What is blood pressure or heart rate?
400
Another term that means the same as "environmental tobacco smoke"
What is second-hand smoke?
500
The type of smoke with the most tar, nicotine, ammonia, and carbon monoxide
What is sidestream smoke?
500
The condition, caused by smoking, that causes clouding of the eye lens
What are cataracts?
500
Since 1980, the effects of ETS have been significatly ________
What is decreased?
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