Health Effects
Addiction
Secondhand Smoke
What's in a cigarette?
Facts
100
Two major organs in the body that smoking affects
What are the lungs, the heart and the brain.
100
True or false? It can take only a few weeks or days for new smokers to become addicted.
What is true.
100
Secondhand smoke is
What is the smoke that comes from the burning end of a cigarette?
100
The same thick black substance used to pave roads.
What is tar?
100
What is peer pressure?
What is when a friend pushes you or tells you to do something that you don't want to do?
200
True or False: Smoking can decrease you athletic performance?
What is true.
200
The chemical in cigarettes that causes addiction is called...
What is nicotine?
200
True or False: Secondhand smoke kills about 300 non-smokers each year.
What is false. It kills about 3000 non-smokers.
200
This is the stuff used to preserve dead animals, like the frogs dissected in some biology classes.
What is formaldehyde?
200
A sticky substance that you chew, kind of like gum with a tobacco flavour.
What is smokeless tobacco?
300
How can smoking affect your mouth? Name 2 ways.
What are cancer of the mouth, gum disease, tooth decay, and yellow staining of the teeth.
300
Nicotine is a stimulant which makes you
What is hyper?
300
Secondhand smoke causes babies and young children to get what kind of disease?
What are lung infections?
300
The main ingredient in rat poison.
What is cyanide?
300
True or False: A true friend will respect your decision not to smoke.
What is true!
400
True or False? Smoking is not the most preventable cause of death in North America.
What is false.
400
It is difficult to quit smoking once you start because your body becomes...
What is physically dependent on the drug. This means you crave it.
400

How much pollution is created by smoking in a crowded restaurant?

What is 6 times the amount of pollution on a busy highway?

400
A common pollutant that comes from the exhaust in cars.
What is carbon monoxide?
400
Helping someone quit smoking...what can you do?
What is talk to them, get support and resources, talk to an adult you trust.
500
Three major diseases caused by smoking.
What are emphysema, bronchitis, heart attacks, heart disease, stroke, and cancer.
500
The biggest cause of pollution on beaches is...
What is cigarette butts?
500
How many more lung cancer related deaths does secondhand smoke cause than all the different kids of pollution combined?
What is 30 times more?
500
This is in many household cleaners.
What is ammonia?
500

Friday, March 26th

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