Ingredients
This addictive chemical is found in both cigarettes and most vapes.
What is nicotine?
Smoking damages these organs, making it harder to breathe.
What are the lungs?
This is the approximate number of chemicals found in cigarette smoke.
What is 7,000?
Vaping is just water vapor.
What is a myth?
Smoking or vaping can reduce this, making it harder to perform in sports.
What is oxygen efficiency and lung capacity.
These chemicals give vapes flavors like fruit or candy but can irritate the lungs when inhaled.
What are flavoring chemicals?
Nicotine increases this, making your heart beat faster.
What is heart rate?
Smoking is responsible for over this many deaths per year in the U.S.
What is 480,000?
Nicotine is addictive.
What is a fact?
This can happen when someone becomes dependent on nicotine and craves it regularly.
What is addiction?
This toxic gas, also found in car exhaust, can be inhaled from cigarette smoke.
What is carbon monoxide?
In teens, nicotine can interfere with the development of this organ.
What is the brain?
This age group has the highest rates of vaping in the U.S.
What are adults ages 18-24?
Secondhand smoke can harm others.
What is a fact?
Breathing in smoke or vapor from others is known as this.
What is secondhand smoke (or secondhand exposure)?
These tiny toxic elements, like lead and nickel, can come from vape devices.
What are heavy metals?
Smoking can cause a buildup of this sticky substance in the lungs.
What is tar?
This percentage of smokers start before this age (around 90% before this age).
What is 18?
Vapes are completely safe.
What is a myth?
Long-term smoking greatly increases the risk of developing this serious disease.
What is cancer?
This chemical, used to preserve dead bodies, has been found in cigarette smoke.
What is formaldehyde?
This serious lung injury has been linked to vaping products.
What is lung injury (or EVALI)?
This is the minimum legal age to buy tobacco products in the U.S.
What is 21?
You can quit nicotine addiction with support and resources.
What is a fact?
This organ system is most directly affected by smoking and vaping because it is responsible for taking in oxygen and removing carbon dioxide.
What is the respiratory system?