Facts
Side Affects
Heart & Lungs
Diseases
Brain
100
Addictive component of cigarettes.
What is nicotine?
100
When people around you inhale the smoke from your cigarette.
What is secondhand smoke?
100
Hardening of the arteries.
What is atherosclerosis?
100
Breathing disorder caused by smoking that is characterized by excess mucous in respiratory pathways.
What is chronic bronchitis?
100
30 minutes after your last cigarette, your body goes into nicotine withdrawls.
What is nicotine deprivation?
200
Gives flavor to cigarettes.
What is tar?
200
When people around you can smell the smoke on your clothes.
What is thirdhand smoke.
200
Your heart has to work harder to pump blood leading to this.
What is high blood pressure?
200
Air sacs in your lungs are damaged, leading to a difficulty breathing.
What is emphysema?
200
A blockage of an artery in your brain.
What is a stroke?
300
This is added to cigarettes for flavor and to reduce the bitterness of cigarettes.
What is sugar?
300
Tricks your alveoli into thinking it's oxygen and causes suffocation.
What is carbon monoxide?
300
Blockage of an artery in your heart.
What is a heart attack?
300
Chronic inflammatory disease of the airways.
What is asthma?
300
When your body wants more nicotine.
What is craving?
400
White patches in your mouth that can lead to cancer.
What is leukoplakia?
400
Fibers in esophagus that help clear debris.
What is cilia?
400
Located in your lungs, help absorb oxygen.
What is alveoli?
400
Abnormal growth of cells in mucous in your lungs.
What is lung cancer?
400
Your brain is part of this, the entire system is affected by nicotine.
What is central nervous system?
500
Nicotine is this type of drug, it works to impact your central nervous system.
What is stimulant?
500
These cause you to inhale deeper and smoke more.
What is low-tar cigarettes?
500
Common in smokers, typically a cold that goes into your lungs.
What is pneumonia?
500
Abnormal cells grow and spread.
What is cancer?
500
Your brain forms these in order to accommodate the influx of nicotine.
What is nicotinic receptors?
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