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The legal age to use tobacco (in any way) in the U.S.
What is 18?
Cigarette smoking can cause this organ to not function as well making it harder for the person to breathe. Name the organ.
What are the lungs?
A thin cylinder of finely cut tobacco rolled in paper for smoking.
What is a cigarette?
When smokers feel stressed they say smoking helps them to _____.
What is relax?
This is false since Nicotine is a stimulant and causes the heart to beat faster and decreases their hand steadiness causing many to fidget or feel the need to move.
A cigarette-shaped device containing a nicotine-based liquid that is vaporized and inhaled, used to simulate the experience of smoking tobacco.
What is E-Cigarette?
This percentage of 8th graders reported using cigarettes at least one time in the past month.
What is 6.1%?
Cigarette smoking narrows the blood vessels of this organ causing the body to work harder to pump blood. Name the organ.
What is the heart?
The chemical in cigarettes that acts as a stimulant causing the heart to beat faster and decrease in hand steadiness.
What is Nicotine?
Many people do not use cigarettes because they are known to be harmful to overall health as well as tasting and smelling this way.
What is bad?
The liquid (often containing Nicotine and often flavored) that is used in E-cigarettes/vapes.
What is e-liquid/e-juice?
This percentage of 10th graders reported using cigarettes at least one time in the past month.
What is 11.8?
The speed at which the heart beats per minute is known as the heart rate or pulse. This increases and decreases throughout the day depending on activity. This is considered a healthy rate.
What is 60-90 beats per minute?
Nicotine increases the smoker's heart rate which can lead to health problems including irregular heartbeat and even cardiac arrest or heart attack.
A primary ingredient in Cigarettes that comes from a nicotine-rich plant and can be smoked (in cigarettes) or chewed (as in dip).
What is tobacco?
Many smokers say that they continue to use cigarettes because it's part of their routine or a ____.
What is habit?
Nicotine is proven to be highly addictive therefore many find it difficult to stop smoking because of the addiction, but also the habit of doing it so often.
Many of the e-liquids contain nicotine. Nicotine is known to be this type of substance that creates dependence.
What is addictive?
This percentage of teens (8th,10th, 12th graders surveyed) reported using cigarettes daily.
What is 6%?
Cigarette smoking is a main cause of this type of cancer.
What is lung cancer?
The type of smoke nonsmokers are subjected to by being around someone using cigarettes.
What is secondhand smoke?
Many nonsmokers say that they would rather spend their money on healthy activities. In Illinois, someone who smokes a pack a day can spend up to this amount in a whole year.
What is more than $4000 ($4186 to be exact)
$11.50/pack - $80.50/week - $345/month - $4186/year
E-cigarettes and vapes are made up of 4 main parts - the mouthpiece(used to inhale), the cartridge (contains the e-liquid), the Atomizer(heats the e-liquid turns into vapor) and the part that supplies the energy.
What is the battery?
This percentage of adults (18 and older) report using cigarettes daily.
What is 20%?
Cigarette smoking causes damage to the parts of the body that are responsible for the ability to smell, see, hear, and taste.
What is the nose, eyes, ears, and mouth?
Cigarette smoke releases this gas into the body reducing the oxygen in the blood which forces the heart to work harder.
What is Carbon Monoxide?
These are some of the most well known places that cigarette smoking is not allowed.
What is -Schools, Hospitals, Restaurants, Airplanes
Most public places where many people will be are known to be nonsmoking or may have a designated/assigned area for smokers.
The aerosol or vapors from e-cigarettes contains not only nicotine, but may include certain metals that in high doses can be toxic. These metals include tin, nickel and even ____.
What is lead?
Lead is considered a heavy metal. Lead can delay physical and mental development in babies and young children. In adults, slow accumulation of lead can result in kidney and nervous system damage, anemia, stroke or cancer, according to Utah State University.