The Tobacco Plant
A highly poisonous metal found in the soil where tobacco plants grow.
What are lead and cadmium?
Nicotine is considered this by the Environmental Protection Agency.
What is a hazardous waste?
During The Great Plague, many people believed doing this would prevent them from getting infected.
What is smoking tobacco?
The part of a vape that provides power to the device.
What is the battery?
Nicotine is this class of drug.
What is a stimulant?
The chemical found in the leaves of a tobacco plant.
What is nicotine?
One of the biggest dangers of using tobacco products for people of all ages.
What is addiction to nicotine?
Cigarettes began spreading much quicker during this historical event.
What is World War 1?
This is 1 of the 4 main components in vape juice.
What are propylene glycol, vegetable glycerin, flavoring, and nicotine?
These are other examples of stimulants (ex. nicotine).
What are methamphetamines and cocaine?
Tobacco is believed to have been originated in this geographical area in 6000 BCE.
What is South America?
True or false:
An older person has a higher likelihood of developing an addiction to nicotine.
What is false?
In 2019, due to the rising numbers in youth tobacco use, Texas increased the smoking age to this.
What is 21 years old?
The heating element does this which creates the vape smoke.
What is heats the metal strip/coil?
Nicotine use increases risk of one of these physical consequences when used at a young age.
What are lung damage, respiratory illness, and decreased physical fitness?
A nitrogen compound (which can cause lung disease) that is often found in the soil and fertilizers used on tobacco plants.
What are nitrates?
In young people, nicotine has major effects on this part of the body.
What is the brain?
In 1964, tobacco was classified as this by the US Surgeon General.
What is cancer-causing?
This part of a vape detects when there is airflow and activates the heating element.
What is the pressure sensor?
A feeling that nicotine produces when used.
What is wakefulness or euphoria?
The official plant name of Tobacco.
What is Nicotiana tabacum?
Vape companies have begun using this, making it easier for people to take in larger amounts of nicotine without having as much strain on their airways.
What are nicotine salts?
The decade in which the very first vape was created.
What is the 1960s?
This chemical in vape juice can cause popcorn lung.
What is diacetyl?
This chemical is released in your brain when you use nicotine.
What is dopamine?