Every day in the US _______ teens light their first cigarette.
What is the number?
6000
100
Every day in the US _____ teens become regular smokers.
What is that number?
3000
100
What is a common name for any plant of the genus Nicotiana of the Solanacease family (Nightshade Family)?
Tobacco
100
At first, tobacco was used to achieve a certain effect or experience in the Americas.
What was this effect or experience?
Entheogen-
A psychoactive substance used for the purpose of indicating an experience, mystical or spiritual.
100
What is the thickened, white, leathery-appearing spots on the inside of a "smokeless tobacco" users mouth that can develop into cancer of the mouth?
Leukoplakia
200
What are the 3 forms of tobacco?
Cigarettes, Pipe smoke, and Cigars.
200
What is the thick, sticky, dark fluid produced when tobacco is burned?
Tar
200
What US state was tobacco originally raised?
Virginia
200
The US was the first country to put a health warning on cigarettes packs. There have been several change made to that health warning on the package.
What year was the most recent health warning change made on cigarette packs?
1985
200
What is the name for a physiological or psychological dependence on a substance or activity?
What are the cancer-causing substances in tobacco?
Carcinogens
300
What does tobacco contain that makes it an addicting drug?
Nicotine
300
In Eastern North American tribes carried a substance in a pouch that was an acceptable trade item.
What was this trade item?
Tobacco
300
What is the addictive drug in cigarettes?
Nicotine
400
Being in the presence of a smoker puts a persons health in ______.
Jeopardy
400
What is the colorless, odorless poisonous gas in cigarettes?
Carbon Monoxide
400
What are ways tobacco is consumed by humans?
Name 4.
Smoking,
Chewing,
Snuffing, &
Dipping
400
What type of crop is tobacco grown?
Agricultural
400
When a person is trying to give up a tobacco habit, they can take a manufactured product that delivers small amounts of the drug into their system.
What is the name of this manufactured product?
Nicotine Substitutions
500
What is in tobacco that it increases the actions of the CNC, heart, and other organs?
Stimulant
500
What are the 3 types of smoke that effects a non-smoker?
What organization reported that tobacco was the leading cause of death worldwide?
World Health Organization (W.H.O.)
500
Over a million years ago, two countries were already consuming both cannabis and opium.
What two countries were they?
India and China
500
A person can become addicted to a certain substance in tobacco.
What occurs to that person when that certain tobacco substance is no longer in their body?