Tobacco
What is a cancer causing substance?
Carcinogen
The legal age to consume alcohol
21
What is the addictive drug found in tobacco leaves?
Nicotine
Does alcohol effect everyone the same way
no
Body systems affected by tobacco use
Nervous, respiratory, digestive, cardiovascular, excretory, integumentary
What is a thick, sticky, dark fluid produced when tobacco burns?
Tar
The excessive use of alcohol
alcohol abuse
Tobacco that is sniffed through the nose, held in the mouth, or chewed.
smokeless tobacco
Drinking 5+ alcoholic drinks in one sitting
Binge drinking
Colorless, odorless, poisonous gas
carbon monoxide
List some short term effects of tobacco use
Changes in brain chemistry, increased respiration and heart rate, dulled tastebuds and reduced appetite, bad breath, smelly hair, clothes, and skin
The amount of alcohol in a person's blood, expressed as a percentage.
Blood alcohol concentration
Long term effects of tobacco use
Chronic bronchitis, emphysema, lung cancer, coronary heart disease, stroke
The state in which the body is poisoned by alcohol or another substance and the person's physical and mental control is substantially reduced
intoxication
An addict who is dependent on alcohol
Alcoholic
Strategies for preventing tobacco use
practice refusal skills, Avoid situations where tobacco is used, choose friends who don't use tobacco
Living without alcohol
sobriety
Air that has been contaminated by tobacco smoke
secondhand smoke
Severe and potentially fatal reaction to an alcohol overdose
Alcohol poisoning
Which organs are affected by alcohol use
brain, heart, liver, kidneys, pancreas, lungs.
reason tobacco usage has been reduced
Antismoking campaigns, Cost, societal pressures, family influence
Group of alcohol related birth defects that include mental and physical problems
fetal alcohol syndrome
Process that occurs in the body when nicotine is no longer used
nicotine withdrawal
Harm driver or others, police record and possible lawsuits, jail time, revoked DL
Symptoms of alcoholism
craving, loss of control, physical dependence, tolerance, health, family, legal problems.