Secondhand Smoke
What is secondhand smoke?
A person smoking near you.
The amount of Premature deaths caused by smoking and exposure to secondhand smoke between 1965 to 2014.
20,830,000
Who released the first Surgeon General's report on smoking and health in January 1964?
Dr. Luther L. Terry
Most common cancer killer among men and women
Lung Cancer
The annual costs attributed to smoking the United States.
How much secondhand smoke is considered safe for people to breathe?
There is no safe amount.
___________ disease actually claims more lives of smokers 35 years of age and older every year compared to lung cancer
Cardiovascular
This report finds that smoking is a cause of _________ arthritis, and that smoking interferes with the effectiveness of certain treatments.
Rheumatoid
Smokers are estimated to lose about how many years of life?
10
Most first use of cigarettes occurs by _____ years of age (87%)
18
Secondhand smoke has more than ______ chemicals, such as Arsenic, Carbon Monoxide, and Chromium.
4,000
Smoking increases the risk of an ectopic pregnancy; what is an ectopic pregnancy?
the embryo implants in the fallopian tube or elsewhere outside the uterus. Ectopic pregnancy is very rarely survivable condition for the fetus and potentially fatal for the mother.
Smoking has longed been linked to adverse effects on the respiratory system causing malignant and nonmalignant diseases, _________, and ___________
exacerbating chronic lung diseases, and increasing the risk for respiratory infections.
This report concludes that smoking is a cause of _______, and that the risk of developing __________ is 30-40% higher for active smokers than non smokers.
Type 2 Diabetes
______ youth currently 0 to 17 years of age are projected to die prematurely from a smoking-related illness.
5.6 million
Secondhand smoking and mothers who smoke while pregnant increase the risk of infants dying from...?
SIDS
Bonus 100 points: What does SIDS stand for?
Nicotine exposure during ________ has lasting adverse consequences for brain development and is suggestive that exposure during _______may also have lasting adverse consequences for brain development.
fetal development; adolescence
Smoking causes all elements of the _____ phenotype, including emphysema and damage to the airways of the lung.
COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)
A new disease that has been linked to exposure to secondhand smoke.
Stroke
5 effective programs/policies that help reduce smoking rates include: raising the retail price of cigarettes and other tobacco products, smokefree indoor air policies, high impact media campaigns, full access to cessation treatements, and _______________.
funding of comprehensive statewide tobacco control programs at the CDC recommended levels
Even in a short time, breathing in secondhand smoke makes your blood platelets do what?
Behave like those of a regular smoker; causes your blood platelets to stick together.
List 5 examples of new diseases that have been linked to smoking in the Surgeon General's Report.
-Liver Cancer, Colorectal Cancer
-Diabetes, Ectopic Pregnancy, Erectile Dysfunction, Rheumatoid arthritis, Immune Function, Macular Degeneration, Maternal Smoking: orofacial clefts in infants
2.7 to 25.7
The risk of dying from cigarette smoking has increased or decreased over the last 50 years in men and women in the US?
increased
Each year, for every adult who dies prematurely from a smoking-related cause, more than ___ youth or young adults become replacement smokers.
2