Tobacco 1
A plant used to create tobacco-related products, such as cigarettes and chewing tobacco.
What is tobacco?
Residue produced by burning tobacco; consists of small, thick, sticky particles.
What is tar?
If you get pulled over while driving and blow a ___ or higher BAC, you will be charged with driving under the influence charge. Also known as DUI.
What is .08 percent?
What overnight/inpatient facility can someone go to, to get help for an alcohol use disorder?
What is rehab?
Support group where family members and friends who have loved ones with an alcohol-use disorder come together to share their experiences, receive encouragement and learn ways to cope with problems.
What are Al-Anon family groups?
This means habit forming. Starts with the letter A.
What is addictive?
Chronic disease caused by blockages of airflow to and from the lungs.
What is asthma?
A type of drug (known as a depressant) found in drinks such as beer, wine, and liquor that can cause a person to act and think differently.
What is alcohol?
A self-help program for people with alcohol-use disorders to help them change how they think about drinking.
What is Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)?
A support group where young people who have loved ones with an alcohol use disorder come together to share their experiences and learn ways to cope with problems.
What is Alateen?
A toxic chemical in tobacco leaves that makes tobacco products addictive.
What is nicotine?
Tobacco smoke released into environment by smokers, which other people nearby inhale.
What is secondhand smoke?
Consuming no more than one drink per day for women, and no more than two drinks per day for men; is also called social drinking.
What is moderate drinking?
The rule that results in the punishment of young people caught driving with any level of alcohol in their system.
What is the zero-tolerance policy?
Encouraging a person's unhealthy behaviors.
What is enabling?
This means poisonous. Tobacco products are _.
What is toxic?
__ are cancer-causing agents.
What are carcinogens?
Consuming four drinks for women, and five drinks for men on the same occasion.
What is binge drinking?
Self-control that keeps people from taking dangerous risks.
What is inhibition?
The process of completely stopping all alcohol use to remove the substance from the body.
What is detoxification?
A disease that causes the alveoli in the lungs to become permanently enlarged.
What is emphysema?
Ongoing condition in which small bronchioles in the lungs become swollen and irritated.
What is chronic bronchitis?
Consuming eight or more drinks for women and 15 or more drinks for men in one week; can lead to alcohol dependence.
What is heavy drinking?
Percentage of alcohol that is in a person's blood.
What is blood alcohol content? Also known as BAC.
Conditions that occur when the recurrent use of alcohol causes problems that interfere with a person's health and responsibilities at school, home, or work.
What are alcohol use disorders?