Definitions
Used in insecticides, _______ is a highly addictive, toxic, colorless, oily chemical commonly found in tobacco.
What is nicotine?
What is Proposition 99?
Tobacco usage causes veins to _____ in size, the heart works harder, and sometimes heart attack.
What is shrinks/diminish/gets smaller?
(T or F) Lithium batteries can explode or overheat.
What is true?
Switching to e-cigarettes is better than smoking tobacco.
What is a myth?
Commonly thought of as water vapor, but contains many harmful toxins and carcinogens.
What is aerosol?
As of December 20, 2019, the federal age of sale for tobacco products is ____ with no exemption for military personnel.
What is 21?
(T or F) Labels are often incorrect, but nicotine levels remain the same across all products.
What is false?
Which of the following is considered the number one vape product as of last month? Innokin, JUUL, Joyetech, Puff Bar, or Vaporesso?
What is Vaporesso?
Budget friendly, impressive & innovative design, OLED display screens, overall an industry favorite.
It is estimated that one tree is burned for every 300 cigarettes made from tobacco grown in developing countries.
What is a fact?
The destruction of these trees contributes to deforestation worldwide, thus increasing the concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
But that is not where the dangers end. Cigarette butts are the number one item picked up on California roadways.
These butts are non-biodegradable and toxic, meaning they remain in the environment and can leach toxic chemicals, including nicotine, formaldehyde, and arsenic, into water and soil for years. So not only does this litter tarnish the natural beauty of The Golden State and contribute to community blight, but it poses a serious risk to the health and safety of Californians and California wildlife.
_______________ is the combination of smoke from the burning end of a cigarette, hookah, cigar, or pipe and the smoke exhaled by the smoker.
What is secondhand smoke (SHS)?
Since the 1964 Surgeon General’s Report, more than 2.5 million adults who were nonsmokers died because they breathed secondhand smoke, according to the CDC. SHS contains over 7,000 chemicals, including 70 cancer-causing chemicals.
This law added $2.87 tax on all tobacco products in California in 2017.
What is Proposition 56?
What is False? Cigars can have up to 70 times as much nicotine as cigarette. Even if you just hold an unlit cigar in your mouth, the chemicals get in your body.
In 2019, over 5 million _____ used e-cigarettes, with many reporting JUUL as their usual brand.
What is youth?
The 2019 National Youth Tobacco Survey showed that over 5 million youth used e-cigs in the past 30 days, with nearly 1 million who used e-cigs daily.
(T or F) Tobacco advertising companies spent up to millions of dollars every year to get people to buy their products.
______ is a poison gas that is usually found in tobacco smoke.
What is carbon monoxide?
Large amounts of this gas can make people sick or even become fatal for others
What is false?
In a recent study,160 patients with vaping related injuries in California paired their nicotine use in vape products with marijuana. (T or F) they found them from legally sourced retailers.
What is F? 75% of admitted THC vapers said they obtained the products from informal, black market sources.
From 2013 to 2014, e-cig use among US youth (quadrupled? tripled? doubled?).
Since June 2019, the California Department of Public Health received reports that 90 people in California who have a history of vaping were hospitalized for severe breathing problems and lung damage, and 1 person died.
What is myth?
TWO people have died in California.
_______ is the residue from cigarettes, e-cigarette and vaping devices, and other tobacco products that collects on nearby surfaces. These dangerous chemicals cling to walls, carpets, car interiors and even clothing and hair, leaving behind a dangerous residue that can actually become more toxic over time. Exposure to this residue can damage DNA and increases the risk for short-term and long-term health problems, including asthma and cancer.
What is thirdhand smoke (THS)?
What makes thirdhand smoke so dangerous, though, is its persistence. Common cleaning methods such as vacuuming, wiping surfaces and airing out rooms aren’t effective in removing the residue. Even if the smell goes away, the particles linger behind and still pose a danger.
What is marijuana?
Research shows that nicotine is poisonous to the _____ (specify body part) that interferes emotion, impulse control of adolescents. It may even contribute to developing anxiety disorders.
What is the brain?
Nicotine is a neurotoxin that has devastating effects on developing brains. Nicotine is present in all tobacco products (yes, that includes e-cigs).
Originally known as VAPI (vaping associated pulmonary illness), ______ stands for e-cigarette or vaping use-associated lung injury.
What is EVALI?
According to the American Lung Association, EVALI stands for e-cigarette or vaping use-associated lung injury. It was originally known as VAPI (vaping associated pulmonary illness). The new name is in response to a growing number of severe lung illness cases related to using e-cigarette and vaping products, the first being identified during 2019. Vitamin E acetate is commonly known as a primary, but not the only, cause for EVALI.
Menthol cigarettes were originally developed for, and marketed to white men.
What is a myth?