Tobacco Basics
This plant is used to make cigarettes, vapes, and smokeless tobacco products.
What is tobacco?
Nicotine can change a person’s ______, including how they feel or react to things.
What is mood?
When cigarettes are used, the tobacco is set on ______.
What is fire?
This type of device heats liquid to create a mist that people breathe in.
What is a vape/e-cigarette?
This type of tobacco is used without lighting or burning it.
What is smokeless tobacco?
This chemical in tobacco products can make people addicted.
What is nicotine?
Using nicotine can make it harder to focus on this activity students do every day in class.
What is learning?
Breathing in cigarette smoke mainly harms this organ that helps you breathe.
What are the lungs?
Vape liquid is turned into this cloud-like substance before it is inhaled.
What is aerosol?
A common smokeless tobacco product where tobacco is placed between the lip and gum.
What is dip?
These are three common tobacco products: cigarettes, vapes, and this.
What is smokeless tobacco?
This ability helps people control quick reactions and think before acting.
What is impulse control?
Cigarette smoke contains many harmful substances known as ______.
What are chemicals?
Tiny pieces in vape aerosol can travel deep into these air-breathing organs.
What are the lungs?
This form of smokeless tobacco involves repeatedly chewing tobacco leaves.
What is chewing tobacco?
Nicotine can affect this part of the body that controls thinking and decision making.
What is the brain?
Nicotine can interfere with the brain’s ability to make good ______.
What are choices?
Long-term smoking raises the risk of serious illnesses like this disease where cells grow abnormally.
what is cancer?
Some vape devices release metals such as nickel, tin, and this toxic metal often found in old paint.
What is lead?
Using smokeless tobacco can increase the risk of cancer in this body part used for talking and eating.
What is the mouth?
What is one way you can say no to vaping/smoking/smokeless tobacco:
What is "No thanks!", walk away
Adolescence is the stage of life when people move from childhood toward ______.
What is adulthood?
Smoking can also damage the body’s organ responsible for pumping blood.
what is the heart?
Sweet tastes like fruit or candy are often added to vape liquids and are called ______.
What are flavorings?
A group of dangerous chemicals in tobacco linked to cancer risk are called tobacco-specific ______.
What are nitrosamines?