Tobacco Vocabulary!
Name the addictive substance in tobacco.
What is nicotine?
The hardest way to quit tobacco.
What is quitting cold turkey?
The three main chemicals in cigarettes.
What are nicotine, tar and carbon monoxide?
True or false: Switching to e-cigarettes during pregnancy is okay
What is false:
There is no safe amount of smoking. E-cigarettes are also not harmless. E-cigarettes can contain harmful substances including cancer causing chemicals, heavy metals such as nickel, tin, and lead
The thick, sticky, dark fluid produced when tobbaco burns.
What is tar?
The number of people who die a day in the US from smoking?
What is 1,300?
If you quit tobacco you may experience this common symptom.
What is withdrawal?
True or False: Smoking Can cause cancer almost anywhere in the body.
True
Smoking can cause cancer in the Head/Neck, Lung, Leukemia, Stomach, Kidney, Pancreas, Colon, Bladder and many other places in the body.
True or false: Smoking helps relieve stress
False
Smokers typically have increased stress due to nicotine withdrawal between cigarettes. Nicotine is also a stimulant which can increase anxiety.
An odorless, tasteless gas in cigarettes.
The #1 leading cause of preventable death in the US.
Zyban and Chantix are examples of this.
What are medications to quit smoking?
More than ___________ US deaths every year are from cigarette smoking
a. 120,000
b. 250,000
c. 370,000
d. 480,000
What is about 480,000?
A white leathery patch that forms in the mouth of a person who uses chewing tobacco.
What is leukoplakia?
A mixture of the smoke given off by the burning end of tobacco products and the smoke exhaled by the smoker.
What is Secondhand Smoke?
The type of tobacco that causes mouth cancer.
What is smokeless or chewing tobacco?
The organization that is in charge of approving drugs for quitting smoking.
What is the FDA or Food and Drug Administration?
The number of chemicals in cigarettes including carbon monoxide, cyanide ammonia and many other poisons.
What is over 7000?
Battery operated devices that deliver nicotine and other chemicals.
What are e-cigarettes or "vapes"?
A cancer causing substance.
What is a carcinogen?
A condition of the lungs where there is an abnormal increase in the size of air spaces or holes that destroys the lung wall.
What is Emphysema?
Nicotine gum, lozenges, skin patches, nasal spray are all examples of this...
What is Nicotine Replacement Therapy?
What is the average price of a pack of cigarettes in the US?
a. about $4
b. about $6
c. about $5
What is "b. about $6"
Name 1 of the 2 chronic disease OTHER THAN CANCER that can be caused by smoking. (that we discussed in class)
What are Chronic Bronchitis OR Emphysema?