The Basics
The History of Tobacco
What's in a Vape?
Marketing!
Effects of Nicotine
100

This plant's leaves are dried and cured to make products like cigarettes and chewing tobacco. 

What is tobacco?

100

In the 1600s, European settlers discovered tobacco from this group. 

Who are Indigenous Americans? 

100

This metal, once common in paint and pipes, is now considered poisonous. Inhaling it through vaping can cause lung, liver, immune, cardiovascular and brain damage, and even cancers

What is lead?

100

The tobacco industry looks to teenagers as replacement customers because this happened to the customers they need to replace. 

What is dying from tobacco-related illness? 

100

The name for what happens when you need nicotine and can't stop using it. 

What is nicotine dependence? 

200

The name of the extremely addictive substance found in tobacco plants. 

What is nicotine? 

200

The labor group used to grow tobacco in the colonies and early-American history. 

Who are enslaved Africans? 

200

When vaped, the chemical diacetyle causes the lung disease in this image. 

What is popcorn lung? 

200
Juul used this method to illegally sell products directly to teenagers. 

What is selling through their website? 

200

The name for when you compulsively seek and use tobacco products, when when you know they're bad for you. 

What is nicotine addiction? 

300
What the tobacco industry did to tobacco plants to make them contain more and more nicotine. 

What is genetic engineering? 

300

By 1985 (and still today) this type of cancer was the most common cause of cancer deaths. 

What is lung cancer? 

300

When vaped, propolene glycol becomes this cancer-causing chemical, also used to preserve dead bodies. 

What is formaldehyde? 

300

Juul used these marketing techniques to target young people (name three). 

Various responses accepted! 

300

Nicotine use by teenagers is connected with (higher/lower) levels of anxiety and (higher/lower) levels of depression. 

What is higher and higher. 

400

The liquid for use inside an e-cigarette is called e-liquid and is also known by this name. 

What is juice or e-juice? 

400

In 1964, when cigarette smoking was at an all-time high, this percentage of adults in the USA were smokers. 

What is 42%? (will accept any % in the 40s). 

400

When disposed of, vape pens leach these chemicals into the environment. 

What are toxic metals? 

400

The marketing slogan "SWITCH" implied this untrue idea. 

What is the idea that e-cigarettes help people quit tobacco products? 

400

Within seconds of inhaling cigarette smoke or vape mist, or using chewing tobacco, nicotine causes the release of THIS CHEMICAL in the brain, which gives people a good feeling. Over time, the brain begins to crave that feeling from nicotine and people need to use more and more tobacco to get that same good feeling.

What is dopamine? 

500

The class of drugs that speed up messages traveling between the brain and body.

What are stimulants? 

500

In the 1990s-2000s, cigarette smoking declined this percent each year. 

What is 5%?

500

The name of the addictive substance what is vaped.

What is nicotine? 

500

Nicotine use during adolescence can increase/decrease the risk for addiction to other drugs in the future.

What is increase?

500
Teenagers who vape are this times as likely to start smoking cigarattes. 

What is seven times as likely?