Multiple Choice
You must be this age to buy a vape legally.
A.) 16
B.) 25
C.) 18
D.) 21
After quitting smoking, when does a person’s body start to heal?
A.) Within a few days
B.) Within several weeks
C.) Within six months
D.) Immediately
D.) What is immediately?
True or false:
Most e-cigarettes only contain water and flavoring.
False! Research shows that e-cigarettes contain other cancer-causing substances.
True or False
Vaping is much safer than cigarettes because it doesn’t contain any harmful chemicals like nicotine in it and they smell good.
False. Still contains all the harmful chemicals.
These are devices that heat a liquid into an aerosol that the user inhales.
What are e-cigarettes/vapes?
One vape is equal to how many cigarettes?
A.) 1 cigarette
B.) 3 cigarettes
C.) 5 cigarettes
D.) 20 cigarettes
D.) What is 20 cigarettes?
Some ecigs are designed to look like a _____ to make them look harmless to parents.
A.) A cigarette
B.) A flash drive
C.) An iPhone
D.) A remote control
B.) What is a flash drive?
True or false:
If you become addicted to nicotine at a young age, you are more likely to try and become addicted to other substances (i.e. alcohol, opioids, cocaine, etc.) down the road.
True! Nicotine increases levels of the neurotransmitter dopamine in these reward circuits which reinforces the behavior of taking the drug. When a user becomes used to nicotine, they may resort to other addictive substances to receive dopamine in their damaged brain.
True or false:
Just 30 minutes in a smoke-filled room can be hard on your heart.
True! A study of healthy young men published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that breathing secondhand smoke for just 30 minutes caused measurable damage to the arteries. The researchers speculated that the damage could set the stage for atherosclerosis, or the hardening of the arteries.
This is the main source of nicotine.
What is tobacco?
Secondhand smoke harms who?
A.) Everyone around the smoker
B.) Only non-smokers
C.) Only smokers
D.) No one
A.) What is everyone around the smoker?
What tactic is used to make vaping appeal to kids?
A.) Cost
B.) Size
C.) Flavors
C.) What is flavors?
True or false:
You must smoke at least three times a day in order to cause lung and mouth damage.
False! Any amount of smoking or vaping can cause damage to your body.
True or false:
Smoking makes the heart beat faster.
True! Nicotine in smoke makes your blood vessels narrower. That means the heart has to beat faster to get blood.
Isolated in pure form in 1828 by German chemists, this is an oily water soluble substance, colorless liquid which changes color to yellow and brown on contact with air or slowly with light. Was widely used as an insecticide.
What is nicotine?
The average smoker spends this amount of money on cigarettes each year.
A.) $700
B.) $100
C.) $80
D.) $10000
A.) What is $700?
When is vaping safe?
A.) For medical benefits
B.) To reduce anxiety
C.) Never
C.) What is never?
True or false:
As long as an e-cigarette doesn't contain nicotine, it's completely safe.
False! Even though there is no nicotine, people should still be concerned about the effects of the toxic chemicals inside the e-cigarettes.
True or false:
Nickel, arsenic, cadmium, chromium, and benzopyrene are all carcinogens, or cancer-causing chemicals, found in smokeless tobacco.
True! There are 4000 chemicals in smokeless tobacco and 30 are known to cause cancer including nickel, arsenic, cadmium, chromium, and benzopyrene.
This is the dark, sticky mixture of chemicals that is formed when tobacco burns that contains most of the cancer-causing and other harmful chemicals found in tobacco smoke and forms a sticky layer on the inside of the lung when tobacco is inhaled.
What is tar?
It takes this amount of time for nicotine absorbed into the bloodstream to reach the brain.
A.) 24 hours
B.) 10 years
C.) 10 seconds
D.) it never reaches the brain
C.) What is 10 seconds?
Vape flavors contain how many chemicals?
A.) 5
B.) 10
C.) 17
D.) 31+
D.) What is 31+?
True or false:
About 500 people die each year of smoking-related diseases.
False! Nearly 400,000 people die of smoking-related diseases each year.
True or false:
Chewing tobacco contains abrasives that cut the lining of the mouth.
True! In order for nicotine and other chemicals to enter the bloodstream quickly, chew tobacco cuts the lining of the mouth, leading to addiction in a short period of time. These abrasives can also cause open sores that can become infected and pre-cancerous.
This is a kind of drug that speeds up the activities of the central nervous system, heart, and other organs.