Vocabulary
A substance that causes physiological and psychological dependence.
What is an Addictive drug?
Another compound found in tobacco: Colorless, odorless and poisonous gas.
What is Carbon monoxide?
Second hand smoke-air that has been contaminated by smoke.
What is ETS (environmental tobacco smoke)?
The system that tobacco effects when someone has a stroke.
What is the Nervous system?
An addictive drug that is found in tobacco leaves.
What is Nicotine?
Tobacco that is sniffed through the nose, held in mouth or chewed.
What is Smokeless tobacco?
Smoke exhaled from the lungs of a smoker.
What is mainstream smoke?
The system that tobacco effects when someone has cancer of liver or kidneys.
What is the Excretory system?
Changes brain chemistry, heart rate and respiratory increase, taste buds dulled, appetite reduced, users have bad breath, yellow teeth, smelly hair and clothes
What are the Short term effects of using tobacco?
A drug that increases the action of the CNS, the heart and other organs
What is a Stimulant?
Thick, white leathery looking spots on the inside of the mouth that can develop into mouth cancer.
What is Leukoplakia?
Smoke from the burning end of a cigarette, pipe or cigar.
What is Side-stream smoke?
The system that tobacco effects when someone has smokers’ cough.
What is the respiratory system?
Cancer causing substances found in tobacco.
What is Carcinogen?
A person has difficulty concentrating, is irritable, anxious, cannot sleep, and craves tobacco. This is a process that occurs when nicotine is no longer used.
What is Nicotine withdrawal?
Sniffed, held in mouth or chewed. Harmful chemicals absorbed into body up to 3x the amount of a single cigarette.
What is Smokeless tobacco?
The system that tobacco effects when someone has cancer of mouth, pharynx, larynx, esophagus, gum recession, tooth decay, tooth loss, nausea, and or cancer of stomach.
What is the digestive system?
Bronchitis, pneumonia, emphysema, heart disease, side-stream/mainstream smoke, lung cancer, 90% started as teens, contains tar, carbon monoxide, tar damages respiratory system.
What are the long term effects of using tobacco?
A thick, sticky dark fluid produced when tobacco burns.
What is Tar?
Products that deliver a small amount of nicotine to the user’s system while trying to quit.
Examples, gum, patches, nasal sprays, inhalers or Dr. prescriptions
What are Nicotine substitutes?
Smokeless and smoking Tobacco.
What are addictive drugs that contain nicotine?
The system that tobacco effects when someone has increased heart rate, blood pressure, hardened arteries, decrease blood flow, heart attack, and or stroke?
What is the circulatory system?