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Alcohol
Tobacco
Drug and the Body
Miscellaneous
Do You Know
100
What is BAC?
Blood Alcohol Content represents the percentage of alcohol to blood.
100
What is the colorless, odorless, highly addictive drug found in tobacco?
Nicotine
100
What happens when the body becomes used to a drug and needs larger and larger amounts to produce the same effects?
Tolerance
100
What is name of the gummy substance formed by millions of tiny particles in cigarette smoke?
Tar
100
What is legal drinking age in New Jersey?
21 years old
200
The legal limit in NJ is a BAC of what?
.08%
200
Is nicotine a depressant, stimulant, narcotic or hallucinogen?
Stimulant
200
What is an unwanted change in the body that is not related to the main purpose of a drug?
Side Effect
200
The continued need for the effects of a drug even though those effects harm the body, mind, and relationships is called what?
Drug Dependence
200
It is against the law in all 50 states to sell cigarettes to anyone under the age of what?
18 years old
300
What is it called when an individuals blood alcohol level (the percentage of alcohol circulating in the bloodstream) rises to a danger point in which the individual loses consciousness and goes into a coma and in the worst cases, the drinker dies?
Alcohol poisoning
300
What is the term for exhaled smoke and sidestream smoke otherwise known as environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) or passive smoke; a mixture of two forms of smoke from burning tobacco products?
Secondhand smoke
300
What are two types of drug dependence?
1. Physical dependence is when someone develops a tolerance for a drug or shows withdrawl symptoms without it 2. Psychological dependence is a strong emotional desire to continue using a drug.
300
Alcohol interferes with what?
Alcohol interferes with judgement, coordination, and other basic functions by upsetting the brains balance of chemicals called neurotransmitters.
300
What is the depressant drug found in some beverages that slows down the central nervous system and harms body organs?
Alcohol
400
How long does it take for alcohol to enter the bloodstream?
Alcohol enters your bloodstream within 5 to 10 minutes of being consumed. It passes from your stomach into your bloodstream and then travels throughout your entire body-affecting nearly every organ system in the body.
400

How can you reduce the pressure to drink alcohol?

Just say no and leave the situation, Talk to a counselor or trusted adult, join sports teams or get involved with positive after school activities.

400
What are the four ways in which drugs enter the body?
By mouth, by injection, by inhalation, and by absorption
400

What are physical and mental changes caused by alcohol?

Poor judgment, loss of coordination, high blood pressure, loss of concentration

400

What are 3 things that may cause a teen to drink?

Peer Pressure, Media, Lack of confidence

500

Describe alcohols effect on the central nervous system.

It slows it down.

500

What part of the cigarette is addictive?

Nicotine

500

Why do people usually feel sick and dizzy when first trying tobacco? 

Its the bodies way of telling you it does not belong in your body.

500

Why does using tobacco make the heart work harder?

It narrows blood vessels. 

500

What are two different tyypes of cancer caused by smoking

Lung and Esophagus