Prevalence
This disease, attributed to tobacco use, is the number one cause of preventable death in the United States.
What is lung cancer?
1 in 4 people die who die as a result of smoking, have not smoked a single cigarette themselves; they have just been exposed to this.
What is secondhand smoke?
Tobacco use is projected to kill 1 billion people during the 21st Century. (T/F)
What is true?
This constituent of cigarettes is the primary cause of it's addictive nature.
What is nicotine?
The demographic areas in which children and young teens are more likely to begin smoking at early ages are?
What is poor areas of those with low socioeconomic status?
These are chronic effects that smoking can have on your skin.
What is wrinkles and premature aging?
People believe smoking makes you look thinner and therefore better, in what ways are smokers' physical appearances degraded?
What is yellowing of teeth, darkening of gums, and formation of lines and wrinkles in the skin/skin conditions, damaged hair?
This smokeless tobacco product causes cancer of the mouth, cheek, and gums.
What is chewing tobacco?
This tobacco product has 4 times more nicotine than cigarettes.
What is hookah?
Because of the way a hookah is used, smokers may absorb more of the toxic substances also found in cigarette smoke than cigarette smokers do. T/F
What is True?
(An hour-long hookah smoking session involves 200 puffs, while smoking an average cigarette involves 20 puffs. )
Pregnant women addicted to cigarettes may believe that their habit is to hard to kick, and it won't affect their baby that much. Name one defect that their child can develop as a result of their smoking?
What is SIDS, birth defects, lung problems, premature birth, miscarriage, low birth rate, heart problems
This chemical found in tobacco is also found in nail polish remover.
What is acetone?
This chemical found in cigarettes is also found in car exhaust.
What is carbon monoxide?
Other than health-related reasons, what are other ways that smoking can negatively impact your life?
What is the expenses; loss of control of your body (cravings); degrading of your appearance, etc.
This is the reason why although flitered cigarettes have less nicotine than regular cigarettes, after smoking them the person still reaches the same amount of nicotine in their body.
What is they end up smoking more filtered cigarettes to get the same effect the regular cigarettes gave them?
This is the mechanism through which nicotine acts that causes a smoker to be addicted to cigarettes.
What is activation of the reward pathway? OR dopamine/serotonin
After laws were passed banning smoking in bars and restaurants there was a large decline within a couple of months in which of the following?
a) Lung cancer rates
b) Pneumonia requiring hospital admission
c) Heart attacks
d) Colds and flu in restaurant workers
What is it c) Heart attacks
Propylene glycol, terpentine and butane are chemicals commonly found in your garage. These are present in brake fluid, paint thinner and gasoline respectively. Where else can all of these corrosive chemicals be found?
What is cigarettes?
Although smokers believe their habit is their own decision, it effects others and their health as well. There are two types of secondhand smoke, one is called mainstream smoke which is exhaled from the smoker. This is the other type that comes from the end of the lighted cigarette.
What is sidestream smoke?
Children exposed to secondhand smoke are more likely to have which of the following illnesses?
a. severe and frequent asthma attacks
b. bronchitis and pneumonia.
c. ear infections
d. all the above
d. all the above