Mid Carolina PE Health

Alcohol

100

A drug made from fermented grains, fruits or vegetables that slows down the Central Nervous System and harms body organs

Alcohol

200

Legal age to buy Alcohol

21

300

Percentage of alcohol in a persons blood when he or she drinks

Blood Alcohol Content (BAC)

400

A disease in which a person is dependent upon alcohol

Alcoholism

500

Diseases caused by Alcohol are what

Emphysema, 

• Cancer

  • Increased risk of Cardiovascular Disease

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    • Strokes 

      • Chronic Cough

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        • Respiratory Illness

Smokeless tobacco

100

A plant grown for its leaves that can be smoked, chewed or sniffed for the effects of the nicotine contained in them

Smokeless tobacco

200

Tar and Carcinogens are found in Tobacco, what is the third?

Carbon Monoxide

300

Legal Age to buy Tobacco

21

400

What alters your mood, stimulates the Central Nervous System, increases heart rate and blood pressure/health problems

Nicotine

500

True or false, Using Tobacco does not effect how you think rationally 

False

Tobacco

100

Impact of using tobacco? 

"Use smoking to help rationalize behavior?" 

Is this an impact of using tobacco? T/F

True

200

addictive drug found in tobacco

Nicotine

300

• A plant grown for its leaves that can be smoked, chewed or sniffed for the effects of the nicotine contained in them

• Used in Cigarettes, Pipes, Cigars

Tobacco

400

Physical changes of Tobacco. Name 4

• increased heart rate

• Limited amount of oxygen in blood, black and hairy tongue

• Bad breath, stained teeth and fingers

• Receding gums and ulcers on gums

• Tooth decay and loss

500

Other chemicals found in Tobacco

Tar, carcinogens, and carbon monoxide

Miscellaneous

100

Comes from floating smoke off the end of a cigarette, cigar or pipe exhaled from the smoker

Second Hand Smoke

200

When a mother smokes cigarettes when pregnant and gives birth to a "deformed child"

Fetal Smoke Syndrome

300

If your BAC is >.50, what can happen

Death

400

How to resist pressure to use Alcohol and tobacco

Ask an adult for help

Say no in a firm voice

Leave the situation

don't hang around people who do that

500

Physical affects of secondhand smoke?

Coughing/Sneezing, Irritates the throat/lunges,eyes and nose, 

• Sniffling

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  • Defects in babies born to mothers that smoke , 

    • Triggers Asthma