Tobacco Facts
Rough number of US deaths per year attributed to cigarette smoking?
a) 1,100,000
b) 740,000
c) 480,000
d) 315,000
What is c) 480,000
Name two of the principal components of photochemical smog.
What are ozone, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide, nitric oxide, and peroxyacetylnitrate (PAN).
This was the year that NEPA was signed into law.
What was 1970?
A house report leading up to its passage concluded, "the value of . . . genetic heritage is incalculable."
What is the Endangered Species Act?
This is the smoke that comes directly off the tip of a cigarette.
What is sidestream smoke?
Name 4 forms of smokeless tobacco.
What are Snuff, Snus, Chewing, Dissolvable
Others ?
This biogeochemical cycle has no gas phase and moves somewhat slowly.
What is the phosphorus cycle.
Caused by the action and occurs at the same time and place.
What are direct effects?
This Law was created partially in response to the events of Love Canal
What is Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA)?
One of the many cancer causing agents in cigarettes; it is also found in rechargeable batteries.
What is Cadmium
Definition of "thirdhand" smoke?
What is the persistent residue generated from aged secondhand smoke (SHS) that adheres to indoor dust and surfaces and reemits into the air
Originally thought to occur only in the outer regions of the Solar System, significant deposits of this greenhouse gas containing material have been found under sediments on the ocean floors of the Earth.
What are methane hydrates or methane clathrates.
"Other statutes may impose substantive environmental obligations on federal agencies, but NEPA merely prohibits _________ – rather than unwise – agency action."
What is uninformed.
Law that gives EPA responsibility for hazardous waste from the "cradle-to-grave."
What is the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)?
What is the Tellico Dam.
A 1 hour hookah session is commonly includes about this many puffs (an equivalent of 10 or more cigarettes)?
a) 400
b) 350
c) 150
d) 75
What is c) 150.
This physical parameter can be used to approximate the bioconcentration potential of an environmental contaminant.
What is the octanol-water partition coefficient.
According to CEQ, evaluating these is the "heart" of an EIS.
What are alternatives?
This act provides for federal registration and regulation of pesticide distribution, sale, and use.
What is the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)?
A finding of no significant impact is known as a FONSI but who played the TV "Fonzie" on the show Happy Days?
Who is Henry Winkler
This agreement finalized in November 1998, between the four largest United States tobacco companies and the attorneys general of 46 states settled their Medicaid lawsuits against the tobacco industry for recovery of their tobacco-related health-care costs.
What is the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement (MSA).
This group of human enzymes plays a primary role in the detoxification of xenobiotics within the body.
What are cytochrome p450 enzymes.
In early NEPA court cases, projects were not enjoined or removed if the costs of altering projects already underway would outweigh benefits. Later courts recognized this incentivized projects to move quickly in an attempt to evade the requirements of NEPA. Therefore, the courts cautioned that even completed projects could be ordered to be removed. What is/was this problem known as?
What is the "mootness doctrine" or "mootness problem".
This famous supreme court case established the right of sovereign states to protect their citizens from outside environmental "nuisances".
What is Georgia Vs Tennessee Copper Co. 1907.
Toxicology term used to describe when a chemical that does not have a specific toxic effect makes another chemical more toxic.
What is potentiation.