Utah
Disease and Death
Vocabulary
General Information
Youth
100

In 2019 what % of Utah high school youth reported currently using any tobacco product, including e-cigarettes. Among Utah high school youth, 2.2% reported currently smoking cigarettes.

what is 10.7%

100

More than ---- Americans are living with a disease caused by smoking.

What is 16 million

100

is smoke from burning tobacco products, like cigarettes, cigars, hookahs, or pipes.

What is second hand smoke

100

There are more than------chemicals in commercial tobacco* smoke, including hundreds of chemicals that are toxic and about 70 that can cause cancer.

What is 7,000

100

More than------middle and high school students currently use any tobacco product.

What is 3 million

200

What % Of adults smoked cigarettes in 2019?

What is 7.9%

200

For every person who dies because of smoking, at least ---- people live with a serious smoking-related illness.

What is 30

200

a condition in which the air sacs of the lungs are damaged and enlarged, causing breathlessness.

What is emphysema

200

 can cause sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), respiratory infections, ear infections, and asthma attacks in infants and children.

What is Secondhand smoke

200

of high schoolers currently use any tobacco product.

what is 16.5%

300

How many adults die from smoking-related illnesses each year?

what is 1,300

300

Worldwide, tobacco use causes more than ----  deaths per year. If the pattern of smoking all over the globe doesn’t change, more than ----- people a year will die from diseases related to tobacco use by 2030.

What is 7 million, 8 million

300


a condition involving constriction of the airways and difficulty or discomfort in breathing.


What is COPD

300

Since 1964,-----about people who did not smoke died from health problems caused by secondhand smoke exposure.

What is 2.5 million

300

of middle schoolers use any tobacco product.

What is 4.5%

400

How much money was spent on healthcare costs due to smoking in 2009?

What is $542M

400

Cigarette smoking is responsible for more than ------ deaths per year in the United States, including more than ----- deaths resulting from secondhand smoke exposure. This is about one in five deaths annually, or 1,300 deaths every day.

What is 480,000/41,000

400

is the sticky brown substance that stains smokers' teeth and fingers yellow-brown. It contains cancer causing particles (carcinogens).

What is Tar

400

Secondhand smoke exposure can produce harmful inflammatory and respiratory effects within------ of exposure which can last for at least three hours after exposure.

What is 60 minutes

400

More than-----high and middle school students currently use E-Cigarettes.

What is 2.5 million

500

How much money was received from CDC for tobacco prevention and control activities in FY 2020?

What is $1.2M

500

If smoking continues at the current rate among U.S. youth, ----- of today’s Americans younger than 18 years of age are expected to die prematurely from a smoking-related illness. This represents about one in every 13 Americans aged 17 years or younger who are alive today.

What is 5.6 million

500

A persistent, unpleasant odor in exhaled breath, usually not serious, commonly called bad breath.

What is Halitosis

500

the leading cause of death in otherwise healthy infants.

What is SIDS

500

More than-----people use E-Cigarettes daily

What is 1 in 4

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