Cigarettes & Cigars
An ingredient in a cigarette.
What is hexamine, toluene, stearic acid, acetic acid, carbon monoxide, butane, methanol, nicotine, arsenic, cadmium, and paint?
The most common cause of vaping in teens.
What is peer pressure?
A device that produces smoke, is highly addictive, and is detrimental to one's health.
What is a vape?
A health risk of smoking.
What is cancer, heart disease, facial wrinkles, and gum diseases?
The email to reach IYTC.
What is info@iytc.org?
The percentage of teens who started smoking because their friends did or they felt some sort of peer pressure.
What is 70%?
Name one actions tobacco companies take to market and advertise vapes to children.
Tobacco companies purposely appeal to children by making and advertising flavors
Companies will place products and ads on children’s aisles and websites
Companies like Juul offer scholarships to teens
Companies market on social media, which mostly have teens on there
The approximate number of chemicals in a cigarette.
What is 7,000?
The use of your voice to change government policy.
What is legislative advocacy?
An action or strategy designed to defer or postpone something in order to get oneself out of a difficult situation.
What is the delay tactic?
Name one action you can take to combat tobacco companies' vape marketing and advertisement.
Again, know your stance
Vaping/smoking is not cool
Always alternatives to the flavors like actual candy or fruit
The cost of one cigar.
What is $7 to $12?
Using facts to persuade public policy.
What is educational advocacy?
One way to combat peer pressure related to your friends.
Spend time with people who won’t pressure you
Have a friend you trust to remind you to say no
Components to a vape.
- pod cover
- mouthpiece
- rechargeable battery
- liquid pod
- heating element
The number of youths younger than 18 who will die from a smoke-related illness.
What is 5.6 million?
The 5 steps you can take right now to help the vaping epidemic.
Join IYTC
Make your voice heard
Educate and Encourage
Do your research homework
Be Smart, Don’t Start!
One way to combat peer pressure related to taking a stance against vaping.
What is saying no?
Ways vaping can damage your health.
Lung damage
Cancer
Stunt development
Lack of focus when studying
Unhealthy addiction
Heart failure