Harmful Effects of Pipes and Cigars & Other Consequences
Harmful Effects of Smokeless Tobacco
How Tobacco Affects the Body
100
This addictive drug is in tobacco.
Nicotine
100
This is a cancer- causing substance.
A carcinogen.
100
Selling tobacco products to people under this age is illegal.
18.
100
True or False: Smokeless tobacco is less addictive than smoked tobacco.
False.
100
This is a disease that destroys the tiny air sacs in the lungs. The air sacs become less elastic, making it more difficult for the lungs to absorb oxygen.
Emphysema.
200
What is the number 1 cause of preventable disease and death in the U.S.?
Tobacco use.
200
What is tar?
A thick, sticky, dark fluid produced when tobacco burns.
200
Cigars contain more nicotine and produce more tar and carbon monoxide than what other type of tobacco use?
Cigarettes.
200
Name 1 way that smokeless tobacco is used.
Sniffed though the nose, held in the mouth, or chewed.
200
Name three body systems that are affected by tobacco use.
what form of tobacco can prevent many serious health problems?
All forms.
300
Name 1 Thing tar damages.
Alveoli or Lungs.
300
Pipe and cigar smokers have an increased risk of developing cancer in these areas.
Lip, mouth, and throat.
300
This is a disease in the mouth that irritates the mouth’s tissues and causes oral cancer. It has a thickened, white leathery-looking spotted appearance.
Leukoplakia.
300
Name three long-term effects on the body that result from tobacco use.
This is a substance that causes physiological or psychological dependence.
Addictive drug.
400
Lungs damaged by smoking are more likely to be affected by what diseases.?
Bronchitis, pneumonia, emphysema, and cancer.
400
These three types of consequences result from tobacco use.
Legal, Social, and Financial.
400
Name 1 type of cancer that is more common when you frequently take smokeless tobacco.
Throat, larynx, esophagus, stomach, pancreas.
400
Name two of the short -term effects on the body that result from tobacco use.
Change in brain chemistry, increased respiration and heart rate, Dulled taste buds and reduced appetite, Bad breath and smelly hair, clothes, and skin.
500
This is a type of drug that increases the action of the central nervous system, increase heart rate, and other organs.
A stimulant.
500
What is carbon monoxide?
A colorless, odorless, poisonous gas found in cigarettes.
500
This many carcinogens are found in cigarettes.
43.
500
Smokeless tobacco delivers two to three times as much nicotine as a cigarette does. Why is that?
Because it is held in the mouth for a long period of time.
500
Name two distinct differences between a healthy lung and a smoker’s lung.
Different blackish color, smaller and shriveled in size, moldy and dry.