Vocababulary
Facts about tobacco
Health effects of tobacco use
Passive smoking
Lung cancer
100
Dark,sticky mixture of chemical that forms when tobacco burns
What is tar?
100
7 seconds
What is the time within nicotine reaches the brain?
100
hard, white, leathery patches in mouth from excessive tobacco use
What is leukoplakia?
100
Second-hand smoke
What is passive smoking
100
2 types
What is the number of different types of lung cancer?
200
Any drug that speeds up the CNS
What is a stimulant?
200
How many percent of smokers die every day in the U.S?
What is 50%
200
The amount of heart beats per minute smoking increases
What is 15-20?
200
Taste and smell
What are the senses that are affected by long term smoke?
200
Cigarettes, passive smoking, industrial hazards and pipes and cigars (E-cigarettes)
What is the four risk factors for lung cancers?
300
Drug in tobacco leaves that causes addiction+acts as a stimulant
What is Nicotine?
300
Aids, drugs, car accidents and murder
What is the four causes of death that combined don't equal smoking as a cause?
300
A physical impairment
What is a disease?
300
Mainstream
What is it called when the smoke is exhaled by the smoker and the inhaled by the person?
300
Black because of tar
What is the color of a smokers lungs?
400
Colorless, odorless, poisoness gas in tobacco smoke
What is Carbon Monoxide(CO)?
400
The time nicotine stays active in the brain
What is 20-40 seconds?
400
The aggressive form of lung cancer
What is Carcinoma?
400
Sidestream
What is it called when the smoke is coming direct from the cigarette?
400
The cancer type that kills the most people each year
What is Lung cancer?
500
Cancer causing agents
What is carcinogen?
500
The number of Americans who die every year of smoking
What is 438.000?
500
Emphysema
What is the disease that make the alveoli lose the ability to expand/contract?
500
Areas where you can't smoke in public
What is smoke free zones?
500
Three treatments for lung cancer
What is radiation, surgery and chemotherapy?
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