Vocab
Addiction is a psychological or physical need for
a drug or other substance.
Cold Turkey?
cutting off or stopping completely.
Are strong stimulant drugs that speed up the nervous system.
What are Amphetamines?
What is the Respiratory System?
is a set of organs that supplies your body with oxygen and rids your body of carbon dioxide.
Drug that causes a person to see, hear, smell, and taste things in an altered way
Hallucinogen
Smoke that comes from the burning end of a burning tobacco product
What is Sidestream Smoke
One Third?
Smokers will die from tobacco related illnesses.
What is the legal limit for blood alcohol content or BAC?
0.08
A tube in the throat that takes air to and from the lungs.
What is the trachea
Example of a stimulant
crack - cocaine
Scarring and destruction of liver tissue
42%?
According to the American Lung Association of all teens who smoke a first cigarette, 42 percent will become regular smokers.
What are two factors that can impact how someone may be impacted by alcohol?
What are size, gender, food, how fast someone drinks
two tubes that branch from the trachea; one tube leads to each lung.
What is bronchi
Name 3 of the 5 benefits to say NO to tobacco
Save money, clean teeth, clothes smell good
Drugs that speed up the body's functions
What are Stimulants
4,000?
DD: A single puff of tobacco smoke contains more than 4,000 chemicals.
Name one immediate effect of marijuana and one long term effects.
What are increased heart rate and appetite? Long term- feelings of anxiety and panic
is a large dome-shaped muscle below the lungs that expands and relaxes to produce breathing.
What is the diaphragm
Give 2 examples of illegal drugs
crack, cocaine, marijuana, pcp, meth
Drugs that slow down the body's functions and reactions.
What are depressants
400,000?
In the United States, more than 400,000 people die each year because of smoke-related illnesses.
Name the (tobacco) three substances that are extremely harmful to your health.
DD: What are nicotine, tar, and carbon monoxide?
Factors that can damage the respiratory system
What are germs, tobacco smoke, inhaled chemicals, environmental pollution
What is psychological dependence?
is an addiction in which a person believes that he or she needs a drug in order to feel good or function normally.