Vaping/E-Cigarettes
Toll of Tobacco
Random 2000s
Percentages
Eat Your Veggies
100

The legal age to use e-cigarettes/vapes and all other tobacco products in the US is ____.

What is 21?

100

This causes cancer, heart disease, stroke, lung diseases, diabetes, and COPD plus causes people to lose an average of a decade off their life. 

What is smoking?

100

This product revolutionized the way we listen to music. Apple introduced it on Oct. 23, 2001.

What is the first iPod?

100

According to the 2021 Youth Risk Behavior Survey, ___% of Vermont middle school students used a vape/e-cigarette during the past 30 days. 

What is 5%?

100

It's a bright idea to refer to quantities of garlic by this unit.

What is a bulb?

200

Big Tobacco has created over 15,000 of these to entice kids to start vaping.

What are flavors?

200

Over 2,500 of this age group try smoking for the first time EVERY DAY in the US.

Who are kids (under 18)?

200

This social media platform was launched on February 4, 2004, changing how people communicate.

What is Facebook?

200

According to the 2021 Youth Risk Behavior Survey, ______ % of Vermont middle school students have used a vape/e-cigarette.

What is 9% (or 1 in 10)?

200

Aubergine, a species of nightshade, is more commonly known in the U.S. as this.

What is an eggplant?

300

The addictive ingredient in tobacco products including vapes/e-cigarettes is _________. 


What is nicotine?

300

90% of smokers start before this age...

What is 18 years?

300

He was elected as the nation’s first black president of the United States on November 4, 2008.

Who is Barack Obama?

300

According to the 2021 Youth Risk Behavior Survey, _____% of Vermont middle school students believe their parents feel it is wrong for them to use vapes/e-cigarettes.

What is 94%?

300

The red, yellow, and green varieties of this culinary vegetable are actually the same plant at different stages of ripening.

What is a bell pepper?

400

Nicotine is highly addictive and exposure during adolescence can harm your _________________.

What is developing brain? Nicotine can affect memory, concentration, learning, self-control, attention and mood.

400

About 35% (almost 23 million) US kids have been exposed to this. 

What is secondhand smoke?

400

This photo depicts massive flooding in 2005 from Hurricane Katrina in this US city.

What is New Orleans?

400

According to the 2021 Youth Risk Behavior Survey, ____% of CVSD middle school students drank alcohol for the first time before age 11.

What is 4%?

400

Even though it looks more like a head of lettuce, this vegetable is actually more closely related to the broccoli plant.

What is cabbage?

500

In Vermont there are supports to help people quit vaping.  Two of these programs are _______ & _______.

What is  "My Life, My Quit" & "802 Quits"?

500

Name 3 specific ways that quitting smoking will improve health.

Quitting smoking reduces:

coughing

shortness of breath 

risk of heart attacks and heart disease

risk of cancers of the mouth, throat

risk of stroke decreases

500

In 2002 this currency was introduced in Europe.

What is the Euro?

500

Acccording to the 2021 Youth Risk Behavior Survey, ______% of CVSD middle school students currently use marijuana (cannabis). 

What is 1%?

500

This squash first appeared in the 17th century when the Cinderella fairy tale was written (hint: it was Cinderella's means of transportation) 

What is a pumpkin?

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