Estimated number of children and youth that begin smoking each day
What is 3000?
100
All tobacco contains this addictive stimulant
What is nicotine?
100
Cigarettes contain cancer-causing chemicals and smoking is directly responsible for this percent of lung cancer cases
What is 87%?
100
This chemical is produced by smoking and crowds oxygen out of the blood
What is carbon monoxide?
200
The chest cavity
What is the thorax?
200
This kind of tobacco includes chewing and snuff
What is smokeless tobacco?
200
A person with a nicotine addiction needs additional nicotine about this many minutes after their last smoke or chew
What is 30 minutes?
200
Secondhand smoke is also known as ETS, which stands for:
What is environmental tobacco smoke?
200
This is a method of quitting where the user just STOPS using tobacco
What is cold turkey?
300
The air sacs at the end of the bronchioles
What is alveoli?
300
All forms of tobacco have the potential to cause this disease
What is cancer?
300
This substance is not addictive but paralyzes the cilia
What is tar?
300
A modern cigarette manufacturing machine uses this much paper per hour
What is 4 miles
300
Smoking is the most important preventable cause of this disease--30-40% of deaths due to this are blamed on tobacco use
What is heart disease?
400
Tiny hairs that trap and sweep foreign particles out of the respiratory system
What is cilia?
400
Males in this age range have the highest rate of smokeless tobacco use
What is 18-24?
400
Babies born to women who smoke are twice as likely to be born with this, putting them at greater risk for birth defects and SIDS
What is lower birth weights
400
This is a substance known to cause cancer in humans
What is a carcinogen?
400
This is another name for a non-smoker who is breathing in second hand smoke
What is passive smoker?
500
The muscle that separates the thorax from the abdomen and expands and decreases the size of the chest helping air in and out
What is the diaphragm?
500
Four main kinds of tobacco products:
What are cigarettes, cigars, pipes, and smokeless tobacco
500
Giving up nicotine can result in nausea, headaches, shakiness, drowsiness, irritability, and difficulty concentrating--these are called:
What are withdrawal symptoms?
500
Tobacco farmers use large amounts of fertilizers and pesticides which contain a number of chemicals bad for the soil, water, and the food chain--name 3
What is ammonia, formaldehyde, toluene, arsenic, cyanide
500
These products reduce the amount of nicotine in the user a little at a time to help them stop smoking or chewing