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Tobacco
Marijuana
Inhalants
Alcohol
Miscellaneous
100
What is the chemical in tobacco that makes it so addicting?
Nicotene
100
People can become addicted to marijuana. True or False
True
100
Name three possible effects of using inhalants.
your heart can stop damage to your heart lung damage parts of your brain can die cause problems with thinking and memory rash around your nose
100
Name 3 effects of using alcohol
loss of coordination blurred vision poor judgement blackouts problems with learning and memory
200
Name two other products that contain tobacco
chewing tobacco and cigars
200
Marijuana has less cancer-causing chemicals than tobacco. True or False
False
200
Inhalants starve your brain and body of ______________?
oxygen
200
What is the legal age to drink alcohol
21
200
How old do you have to be to purchase cigarettes?
18
300
There are over _______________toxic chemicals in cigarette smoke.
2,000 4,000 500
300
Marijuana has four times as much___________________in it as tobacco.
cyanide tar nicotene
300
Name two reasons why is is bad for kids to use alcohol.
-The body and brain are still growing -damage to the brain at this age affects how it works for the rest of your life -You can permanently change your personality by damaging the prefrontal cortex -It's illegal
400
What is the brown sticky substance in tobacco that can clog your lungs?
tar
400
More than ____________________people seek treatment for marijuana addiction every year
120,000 250,000 500,000
400
People who drink by age 15 are _____________times more likely to abuse or become dependent on alcohol than those who begin drinking after age 20
12 5 20
500
_________________cancer kills more people than any other type of cancer.
lung
500
Marijuana affects this part of the brain which causes problems with short term memory
hippocampus
500
If you drink a large amount of alcohol very rapidly or at one time you could die from alcohol________________________.
poisoning