True or False
Nicotine is the addictive chemical in cigarettes that makes it hard to quit.
Answer: What is True?
This addictive chemical found in cigarettes keeps people hooked and craving more.
Answer: What is nicotine?
Smoking damages this organ system responsible for breathing and oxygen exchange.
Answer: What is the respiratory system (or lungs)?
This is the most common form of tobacco, rolled in paper and smoked.
Answer: What are cigarettes?
Within minutes of quitting, this vital sign begins to drop to a healthier level.
Answer: What is your heart rate?
Quitting smoking can improve your health almost immediately, including lowering your heart rate within minutes.
Answer: What is True?
This dangerous gas found in cigarette smoke is also found in car exhaust and reduces oxygen in the bloodstream.
Answer: What is carbon monoxide?
Smoking increases your risk of this common cardiovascular event caused by blocked blood flow to the heart.
Answer: What is a heart attack?
This type of tobacco is smoked in a pipe and often comes as loose leaf or shredded blends.
Answer: What is pipe tobacco?
Quitting smoking greatly reduces your risk of this group of diseases that affect breathing and lung function.
Answer: What are lung diseases (such as COPD and lung cancer)?
Most people successfully quit smoking on their very first attempt.
Answer: What is False? (Many people need multiple attempts.)
This sticky, brown substance in tobacco smoke coats the lungs and contributes to cancer and respiratory disease.
Answer: What is tar?
This chronic lung condition, often caused by smoking, makes it difficult to breathe and includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis.
Answer: What is COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)?
This smokeless tobacco product is placed between the cheek and gum and does not require spitting.
Answer: What is snus?
After quitting, this sense—often dulled by smoking—begins to improve within just a few days.
Answer: What is your sense of taste or smell? (Either is acceptable.)
Using FDA-approved nicotine replacement products, like patches or gum, is just as harmful as smoking.
Answer: What is False? (They are far safer than smoking.)
This chemical used in embalming fluid is also present in cigarette smoke and is known to cause cancer.
Answer: What is formaldehyde?
Smoking reduces the function of these tiny hair-like structures in the lungs that help clear mucus and debris.
Answer: What are cilia?
This tobacco product is wrapped in a tobacco leaf rather than paper and is often larger than a cigarette.
Answer: What are cigars?
One long-term benefit of quitting is a reduced risk of this major cardiovascular problem caused by blocked blood flow to the brain.
Answer: What is a stroke?
Smoking “light” or “low-tar” cigarettes significantly reduces a smoker’s risk of cancer.
Answer: What is False? (These offer no meaningful health benefit.)
This radioactive element, found naturally in soil and absorbed by tobacco plants, exposes smokers to radiation with every cigarette.
Answer: What is polonium-210?
Smoking constricts blood vessels and reduces circulation, increasing the risk of this condition that can lead to limb damage or even amputation.
Answer: What is peripheral artery disease (PAD)?
This finely ground smokeless tobacco is traditionally inhaled through the nose.
Answer: What is snuff?
Over time, quitting smoking helps the body repair this crucial protective system that fights off infections and illness.
Answer: What is the immune system?