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A cancer causing substance
Carcinogen
The process that occurs in the body when nicotine is no longer used
The smoke from the burning end of a cigarette, pipe or cigar
Sidestream smoke
The addictive drug found in tobacco leaves
Nicotine
The smoke exhaled from the lungs of a smoker
Mainstream smoke
What is the trend in the number of people in the US who smoke?
Decreasing
Tobacco can causes many types of cancer. What type of cancer us unlikely to develop from smokeless tobacco
Lung
A short term effect of tobacco use related to the heart
Increase heart rate
Hardened arteries, tooth decay, cancer of the bladder are all effects of tobacco use. short or long term?
Long
You will have a higher incidence of sore throats and ear infections if your parent does this
Smokes
Nearly 90 percent of adults started smoking when they were in this age group
Teens
Will avoiding professional health services help or hurt your chances of quitting smoking?
Hurt
Name 2 strategies to reduce the effects of ETS
Air cleaners, request non smoking areas, ask the smoker not to smoke in the home, open windows, spend more time outside
A thick, sticky, dark fluid produced when tobacco burns
Tar
Nicotine is very addictive but is it a carcinogen
This type of drug increases the action of the central nervous system, the heart, and other organs
Stimulant
Name a factor that contributes to the trend of reduced teen tobacco use.
Pro tobacco messages
Parents' approval of tobacco
Low cost cigarettes
No-smoking policies in public spaces
No smoking policies
Name a short term and long term effect smoking has on the respiratory system
Long: coughing, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, and lung cancer
According to the US Surgeon General, the only way to fully protect people from ETS is to do this
Ban smoking in all public places
Why is quitting tobacco so difficult?
Because the nicotine in tobacco leaves is an addictive substance
Name two health risks to the fetus when a pregnant woman smokes
increases risk of impaired fetal growth, spontaneous abortion and prenatal death, premature delivery, low birth weight, deformities, stillbirths
The white leathery looking spots on the inside of the mouth caused by smokeless tobacco
Leukoplakia
Describe the relationship between future tobacco use and whether or not a child's parent smokes
If a parent smokes you are more likely to smoke as well
A product that delivers small amounts of nicotine into a users system when the user is trying to quit is called this
Nicotine substitute
Environmental tobacco smoke is also called this
Secondhand smoke