Chemicals
Short-term Effects
Long-term Effects
Effects on Others
Facts
100

The addictive drug found in all tobacco
products

Nicotine

100
The nicotine in tobacco will cause your heart rate to ____________. 

Increase

100

Smokeless tobacco, like dip and chewing tobacco, can cause this type of cancer.

Mouth/Oral Cancer

100


The smoke that escapes from the tip of a lit
cigarette, cigar, or pipe.

This can be as much as half of the total smoke.

Sidestream Smoke

100

This is the number one preventable cause of death in America.

Smoking

200

A sticky, black substance in tobacco smoke.

Tar

200

Along with increase in heart rate, this force also increases and will move blood through the circulatory system caused from nicotine intake.

Blood pressure

200

Smoking and vaping contain carcinogens which can cause this deadly disease.


Lung Cancer

200


The smoke that is inhaled through a tobacco
product and exhaled by the user.

Mainstream Smoke

200

This is the year that e-cigarettes were created.

2003

300

Chemicals or agents that cause cancer.

Carcinogen

300

The short term effect from smoking, by the body clearing out the chemicals that enter the airways and lungs through tobacco use.

Cough

300

The carbon monoxide produced from smoking reduces oxygen to the brain which can cause this to happen.

Stroke

300

A combination of mainstream and sidestream smoke.

Secondhand Smoke

300

This country is where e-cigarettes first originated.

China

400

A toxic gas that keeps oxygen from
getting into the bloodstream

Carbon Monoxide

400

These two senses will diminish.

Smell and Taste.

400

Increase in heart rate and blood pressure from nicotine, can cause this to happen.

Heart attack/Heart disease

400

Smoking while pregnant can lead to this.

• Miscarriage
• Premature birth
• Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
• Developmental problems

400

This number of people in the U.S. suffer from
smoke-related illness.

8.6 million

500

Solvents that are heated by e-cigarettes can transform into this carcinogen.

Formaldehyde

500

The discharge of epinephrine (adrenaline) categorizes nicotine as an upper or __________ drug.

Stimulant

500

Smoking can lead to the following symptoms from this disease.

 Lungs lose elasticity
 Fail to expand (inhale)

Emphysema

500

Children who live with smokers can suffer from this.

Asthma

500

Being in possession of a dab pen with this ingredient can lead to a person being charged with a felony.

Tetrahydrocannabinol, THC (same ingredient in marijuana)

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