Smoking cessation
Adolescents who want to quit cigarettes should NOT be advised to switch to this product for cessation.
What are e-cigarettes / vaping?
This highly addictive compound in most e-cigarettes can harm the developing adolescent brain, affecting attention, learning, and mood.
What is nicotine?
Beyond falls, these were the next two highest-ranked mechanisms for mortality on the Canadian Injury Prevention Priority Score.
What are intentional self-harm and drowning?
Over the past two decades in Canada and the US, the number of children hospitalized for ATV-related injuries increased by roughly this magnitude.
What is 2- to 3-fold?
This is the number of reindeer traditionally named in the original poem A Visit from St. Nicholas, before Rudolph came along.
What is eight?
This patient-centred technique aims to enhance a youth's readiness to change; a PROS trial found adolescents receiving the 5As intervention more often tried to quit.
What is motivational interviewing?
Beyond the lungs, emerging teen studies link vaping to effects on this organ system, including raised blood pressure and heart rate with nicotine-containing JUUL use.
What is the cardiovascular system?
Most infants should remain in this car-seat orientation until at least 2 years of age.
What is rear-facing?
Canadian evidence shows youth under this age are more likely to sustain severe injuries and die from ATV crashes than older adolescents and adults.
What is 16 years of age?
In Japan, this fast-food chain became famous for its Christmas fried-chicken tradition.
What is KFC?
This model, which classifies smokers as precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, or action, helps tailor the cessation approach.
What is the Transtheoretical (Stages of Change) Model?
A systematic review of children and young people found the most consistent harm signals across respiratory health plus these two mental-health conditions.
What are anxiety and depression?
After a suspected toxic ingestion, this once-common intervention (including syrup of ipecac) should NOT be performed.
What is inducing vomiting?
These two injury types are the most common causes of death and disabling injury in pediatric ATV crashes.
What are traumatic brain injury and multisystem trauma?
In Norway, a traditional Christmas superstition once encouraged families to hide this household item to stop witches from stealing it.
What is a broom?
The Canadian Paediatric Society position statement on youth vaping recommends this medication class — patches, gums, and lozenges — combined with behavioural strategies for youth with nicotine dependence.
What is nicotine replacement therapy (NRT)?
Adolescents are roughly this many times as likely to use e-cigarettes if a parent owns one.
What is twice as likely (2x)?
Children younger than this age should ride in the back seat of the vehicle.
What is 13 years?
This is the AAP's central age-based recommendation regarding who should operate or ride on an ATV.
What is: no child younger than 16 years of age should ride an ATV?
In Elf, Buddy travels to New York City after discovering that his biological father is on this list.
What is Santa's naughty list?
This aminoketone antidepressant, used in children for ADHD, is suggested for adolescents with moderate-to-severe nicotine dependence but is not FDA-approved for tobacco dependence under age 18.
What is bupropion?
In addition to lung injury, these acute neurologic and toxicologic events have been reported in youth who vape.
What are seizures, acute nicotine toxicity, and burns?
This consistently-worn piece of equipment reduces head and brain injuries while bicycling.
What is a helmet?
Carrying one of these on an ATV increases the likelihood of backward rollovers and rear ejections and is linked to higher rates of brain injury.
What is a passenger?
Despite its name, this traditional British Christmas dessert contains no actual meat today.
What is mincemeat pie?