Effects of Nicotine
The nicotine addicted body experiences what effect when there is a lack of nicotine?
Hint: The signs of this effect are irritability, restlessness, anxiety, and difficulty concentrating.
What is Withdrawal?
The use of smokeless tobacco products can lead to this disease affecting the mouth, tongue, cheek, gums, and lips.
Oral cancer
The charcoal used to heat the tobacco in this device produces smoke that contains high levels of carbon monoxide, metals, and cancer-causing chemicals.
Hint: A device that uses charcoal.
What is Hookah?
Tobacco use products residues that build up on the teeth, gums, and tongue, creating this effect that may cause other people to step away from the smoker or offer the smoker a breath mint.
Hint: When you offer the smoker a breath mint.
What is bad breath?
Exposure to which byproduct of tobacco use can cause tobacco-related diseases in nonsmokers?
Hint: Nonsmokers
What is Secondhand smoke?
Once nicotine has entered the bloodstream, it takes 8-10 seconds for it to affect the normal function of which organ?
Hint: The organ in question acts as a control center for the body.
What is the brain?
How do the high levels of tar (most of the cancer-causing and other harmful chemicals ) found in tobacco smoke affect the body's ability to fight off infections?
What is weaken the Immune System?
Which tobacco product's smoke contains over 7,000 chemicals, 69 of which are known to cause cancer?
What is Cigarette?
Smoking tobacco products causes users to become winded even during routine activity because of this effect.
Hint: A condition called Emphysema
A condition in which the air sacs of the lungs are damaged and enlarged causing breathlessness.
Every cigarette smoked reduces the life expectancy of the smoker by how much time?
What is 11 minutes?
The presence of nicotine in the body increases the heart rate and blood pressure, limiting blood flow to the heart and creating a buildup of arterial plaque that leads to this disease.
What is a heart disease?
Smoking is the leading cause of this disease that damages the lung tissue and reduces the amount of oxygen that reaches the bloodstream.
Hint: If the lung tissue is damaged or enlarged, this will cause irregular breathing.
Shortness of breath or Emphysema
The smoke from this tobacco product is more concentrated and toxic than smoke from a cigarette.
What is a Cigar?
What noisy effect of smoking is produced as the body attempts to clear toxins from the lungs?
Hint: An act performed by smokers.
Hacking Cough
This addictive drug in tobacco products can interfere with or stunt the development of the teenage brain.
What is nicotine?
This condition starts with just one use of any products containing nicotine. It cause users to crave the product despite the harmful effects of its use.
What is addiction?
Tobacco smoke is the leading cause of this type of cancer.
What is Lung?
The nicotine inside the cartridges of this devices is addictive. When people stop using it, they experience withdrawal symptoms.
Hint: Cartridges are containers that hold things, in this case, nicotine.
What is electronic nicotine delivery system?
Acceptable answers: vapes, vaporizers, vape pens, hookah pens, electronic cigarettes, e-cigars, and e-pipes.
Reduced sense of smell and taste.
Hint: Pleasure
These effects of tobacco use reduce the enjoyment of eating food.
4 out of 5 teens will choose to live this way their entire lives.
Hint: Nicotine
What is tobacco free?
Nicotine causes a narrowing of the blood vessels in the outermost (farthest out) layers of the skin, restricting (limiting) blood flow. The reduction in blood flow creates these fine lines on the face.
Hint: Fine-line
What is wrinkles?
Nicotine thickens the blood making it more likely to clot, raising blood pressure and the carbon monoxide in cigarette smoke reduces the brain. These two effects create a greater risk for which health problem?
What is stroke (a disease that affect arteries, leading to and within the brain)?
Mouth and throat cancer, leukoplakia, gum and tooth disease, and discolored teeth are just some of the effects of using which tobacco products?
Hint: Different ways tobacco products are consumed.
What is smokeless tobacco products?
When smoke is inhaled or tobacco is placed in the mouth, nicotine and tar settle into the oral cavity and are absorbed through microscopic openings in tooth enamel, causing what effect?
Hint: Effect of smoking on your teeth
What is stained teeth?
The use of cigarettes and other smoking devices is the number one causes of this type of death in the United States.
What is fire-related death?