Products
1 hour of using this product is the equivalent of smoking 50 cigarettes.
What is hookah?
This is the leading preventable cause of death and disease in the U.S.
What is smoking/tobacco use?
81% of youth have started vaping in order to decrease this mental health condition
What is stress/anxiety/depression?
Menthol is a chemical compound that creates a cooling effect. Menthol is naturally found in this plant.
What is the peppermint plant?
This is the federal minimum age to purchase tobacco products
What is 21
This is a dissolvable product made of nicotine powder and placed between the lip and gum
What is a nicotine pouch? (i.e. Zyn)
Menthol flavored tobacco makes it easier to start smoking or vaping and harder to quit. This percentage of all young people between 12 and 20, who use tobacco products, start with menthol.
What is 50%?
On average, smokers lose this number of years of their life due to their smoking
What is 10 years?
This heavy metal is found in vape aerosol and used for to coat other metals, such as steel
What is tin?
Tobacco-free policies can prevent secondhand smoke exposure. These policies can also prevent exposure to this chemical residue left behind on clothes, furniture, and other surfaces from smoking
What is thirdhand smoke?
Smoking one of these products contains as much nicotine as more than a pack of cigarettes
What is a cigar?
90% of all tobacco users start using tobacco before this age
What is 18?
Name two types of FDA-approved nicotine replacement therapy medications used to quit tobacco use
What are nicotine patches/gum/lozenge/nasal spray/inhaler?
This ingredient is found in vapes and is considered safe in some foods to eat but is not safe to inhale into the lungs
What is flavors? (i.e. Diacetyl)
In this year, the NC Smoke Free Restaurants, Bars and Lodging Law, requiring enclosed areas of almost all restaurants and bars to be smoke-free, went into effect
What is 2010?
These types of e-cigarettes are single-use, many are rechargeable and contain very high amounts of nicotine
What are disposables?
This is the least effective, but most common method that youth and young adults use to try to quit tobacco use
What is cold turkey/quitting on their own?
This condition is described as coated and desensitized taste buds and occurs in people who vape nicotine and/or THC
What is vaper’s tongue?
This is a nickname for bronchiolitis obliterans, a condition that damages your lungs’ smallest airways and makes you cough and feel short of breath
What is popcorn lung?
This is a legal mechanism that allows a higher level of government to limit or eliminate the authority of a lower level of government to enact a law
What is preemption?
This e-cigarette brand contains 650mg of nicotine, the equivalent of 590 cigarettes
What is an Elf Bar?
This chemical is the most addictive substance, more addictive than heroin, cocaine, alcohol and marijuana
What is nicotine?
This refers to several symptoms including nausea, high blood pressure and seizures due to exposure to high amounts of nicotine
What is Nic Sick?
This colorless, odorless, and tasteless gas is deadly if inhaled and is released when charcoal is burned for smoking hookah
What is carbon monoxide?
This policy strategy utilizes land use regulations to limit retail tobacco shops in certain areas
What is zoning?