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True or False: Smoking affects your ability to play sports.
Answer: True: Cigarette smoke takes oxygen out of your blood reducing stamina and making sports and other activities more difficult.
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Which of the following kills more people each year? A. Drugs B. Car crashes C. Tobacco
Answer: C Tobacco kills more people each year.
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Does smoking make you look older.
Yes, however, it's not for the reasons you might think. Smoking makes you look older because people who smoke get wrinkles faster than nonsmokers do. The layer of skin called the dermis, which is under the top layer, gets thinner as people age, causing wrinkles. But smoking and exposure to the sun both make this happen faster.
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Is cigarette smoke toxic?
Answer: Yes. Cigarette smoke has more than 4000 chemicals, 43 of which cause cancer.
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How much do you think a typical U.S. smoker spends a year: a) $100 b) $500 c) $1,000 d) $1,500
With a conservative estimate of $4.00 per pack (prices in some places are much higher), a pack-a-day smoker spends about $1,500 a year on cigarettes. That's a lot of cash going up in smoke.
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True of False: Nicotine is a drug
Answer: True. Nicotine is a drug that is as addictive as heroine. It’s also a pesticide and a poison.
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Smoking causes what type of cancer? a. lung b. kidney c. bladder d. all of the above
Answer: D all of the above.
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Does smoking help you to relax
Many people say that smoking relaxes them. Actually, smoking's effect on your body is just the opposite. Many studies have shown that smoking increases your heart rate and your blood pressure — effects that can lead to long-term damage. The reason that smoking can make people feel more relaxed is that it satisfies — temporarily — the craving for nicotine that makes them irritable.
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What is second hand smoke?
Answer: Second hand smoke is the smoke that you breathe when someone else is smoking in the same room or nearby. It also causes cancer, heart attacks, and problems with asthma and ear infections in children.
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Estimate haw many people die each year of smoking-related diseases. a) 100,000 b) 300,000 c) 400,000 d) 600,000
Nearly 400,000 people die of smoking-related diseases each year.
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True or False: Most Smokers can quit any time they want.
False: 70% of smokers say they wish they could quit. Quitting smoking can be the hardest thing you ever have to do in your life.
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How many years of life does the average smoker loose? A. 1-2 years. B. 5-7 years C. 13- 15 years
Answer: C: 13-15 years
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Teenagers who smoke get sick more often than those who don't smoke
Smoking can make you sick — not just someday, but now. In a national CDC survey of high-school seniors, more than twice as many of those who had been smoking since ninth grade considered their own health poor as those who did not smoke. They were 2½ times more likely than nonsmokers to say they had coughed up phlegm (mucus) or blood or had experienced wheezing or shortness of breath. Smokers also have longer-lasting colds, and they're more likely than nonsmokers to get the flu, bronchitis and pneumonia
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Smoking a cigar is equal to smoking how many cigarettes? a.2 b.6 c.10
Answer: C 10. Because of their size, smoking one cigar is like smoking 10 cigarettes.
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True or False: Nicotine is used as an insecticide to kill bugs
True:The nicotine in the tobacco leaf acts as a natural insecticide. When insects ingest the plant, even in minute quantities, they perish. Given this effect, farmers have been using nicotine as an insecticide since the 1800s.
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True or False: Most young people who smoke say they wish they’d never started.
Answer: True(Ages 13 and up)
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Tobacco companies spend how much money on advertising each year a. $1,000 b. $500,000 c. $100 Million d. $15 billion
Answer: D 15 billion
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If you're a teen smoker, the changes in your body that lead to heart disease can start now.
It may seem crazy to think that you could already be developing the first signs of heart disease. But this is real. A study published March 20, 2001, in the medical journal Circulation found that teenagers and young adults who smoke have three times the level of plaque in a major artery as those who don't smoke. Researchers learned this by looking at autopsy results for nearly 1,500 young men and women, aged 15 to 34, who died in accidents, homicides and suicides.
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Is it true that spit tobacco or chew is safer than cigarettes?
Answer: No. Spit tobacco is especially dangerous and causes mouth and throat cancer, gum disease and tooth loss
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highest mortality rate of any occupation is: a) Firefighters, b)Fisherman c) Teachers d) waitresses
Waitresses have the highest mortality rate because of secondhand smoke.
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True or False: Tobacco Use is the #1 cause of preventable disease in the U.S.
True: Tobacco kills more people each year than AIDS, car crashes, illegal drugs, alcohol, murder and suicide combined.
500
What is the average age that kids try their first cigarette? a.7 b.12 c.15.d.19
Answer: b 12
500
Smokers get more cavities and gum disease than nonsmokers.
If you keep putting cigarettes in your mouth, you can expect the dentist's drill to follow. Smokers are more likely to get cavities and gum disease than nonsmokers, and they also lose more teeth.
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Which of the following chemicals are found in a cigarette? a. ammonia (used in toilets) b. arsenic (rat poison) c. carbon monoxide (car exhaust) d. acetone (nail polish remover) e. all of the above
Answer: e. all of the above, plus 4000 other chemical, 43 of which are known to cause cancer.
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There are how many known known substances in cigarette smoke. a) 4,000 b)1,000 c)500 c) 900
It is estimated that there are more than 4,000 chemicals in tobacco smoke and at least 50 of them are cancer producing. Most of the toxic chemicals of cigarette smoke, including carbon monoxide, benzene, formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide, are created when tobacco burns. Others such as lead, nitrosamines and nicotine are found naturally in unburned tobacco but are released as it burns. Health Canada requires manufacturers to test and report on 43 chemicals found in smoke – including the six now listed on packages.