It's Electric!
These devices have been the most commonly used tobacco product among youth since 2014
What are e-cigarettes?
True or False? Menthol cigarettes are more addictive than regular cigarettes?
True - The menthol masks the harsh cigarette smoke, making it easier for kids to start and become addicted and harder for smokers to quit.
Tobacco is the ____ cause of preventable death in the US
What is #1?
The tobacco industry uses these types of themes to market to women and girls
What are beauty, sophistication, weight loss, fashion, and freedom?
This is the only flavor allowed in regular cigarettes
What is menthol?
In 2022, 85% of youth reported these types of products, the most popular being fruit, candy, mint, and menthol
What are flavored e-cigarettes?
Since the 1950s, Big Tobacco has targeted this community with marketing for menthol cigarettes
Who are Black communities?
90% of US adult smokers began smoking at this age or earlier
What is 18 years old?
Tobacco companies add this chemical to cigarettes, which results in a quicker and more intense nicotine hit
What is ammonia?
One JUUL pod delivers as much nicotine as ___ cigarettes
What is 20?
Propylene glycol, a common ingredient in e-cigarettes, is also found in these everyday products
What are antifreeze, paint solvent, and artificial smoke from fog machines?
Use of menthol cigarettes is disproportionately higher among what groups?
Young people, low income, and minority groups
Other than health issues, tobacco imposes this issue on individuals, families, businesses, and governments
What are financial costs?
In the US alone, the tobacco industry spends more than ___ billion a year to market it's products. This is equal to ___ million every day and more than ___ million every hour
What is $9.1 billion, $25 million, and $1 million?
True or False? E-cigarettes have been proven to help smokers quit
False - E-cigarettes are not approved by the FDA as a smoking cessation tool, and there is no conclusive scientific evidence that e-cigarettes are safe or effective for quitting smoking.
Studies show that youth are more likely to do this if they start using e-cigarettes earlier in life
What is smoking?
Studies have shown doing this would result in a 15% smoking reduction over 40 years in the US
What is banning menthol cigarettes?
Tobacco use kills more than ___ million people worldwide each year.
What is 8?
Vape companies and stores used these tactics to exploit the COVID-19 pandemic
What is (1) make false claims that e-cigarettes are a healthy alternative to smoking, (2) selling or giving away masks, and (3) advertise special price promotions?
Big Tobacco spends 95% of its marketing expenditures on these types of promotions
What are advertisements in and around retail stores?
The tobacco industry uses these tactics to market to youth
What are celebrity/influencer endorsements, social media, TV and magazine ads, and sports and music sponsorships?
Menthol masks the harsh tobacco smoke for new users by doing this
What is cooling and numbing the throat?
This is a poisonous mix of over 7,000 chemicals, including about 70 that cause cancer, and is indirectly inhaled?
What is secondhand smoke?
These are the shapes and sizes that e-cigarettes a designed to look like
What are flash drives, pens, highlighters, or other school supplies?
A 1920s ad from this Big Tobacco company marketed the cigarette as a diet ad
Who is Lucky Strike?