Teens and Tobacco
T/F: Using smokeless tobacco is safe because no smoke is produced or inhaled.
What is false?
The drug that makes tobacco/e-cigs/cigarettes addictive.
What is nicotine?
T/F: Tobacco is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States.
What is true? Tobacco kills more than 8 million people each year, including an estimated 1.3 mil non-smokers who are exposed to second-hand smoke.
T/F: The tobacco industry was one of the first to develop marketing materials to specifically target the LGBTQ+ community.
What is true?
T/F: Skin damage is a reversible effect of tobacco use.
What is false?
The list of skin issues caused by smoking is long- loss of healthy color, dryness, sagging of the skin, development of lines and wrinkles, warts, age spots, and even skin cancer development
This many teen smokers end up smoking into adulthood
3 out of 4
Tobacco that is placed between the lower lip and teeth.
Number one thing that tobacco effects first in your body.
What is lungs?
T/F: Tobacco companies target youth and members of racial/minority communities.
What is true?
Your body begins to heal _ after you stop smoking.
A. immediately
B. 1 week
C. 3 months
D. 5 years
A. What is immediately?
How long does new research show it can take for a teen to become addicted to nicotine?
Two weeks
T/F- “Low-yield cigarettes” are those that tobacco manufacturers label “light,” “low,” or “mild.” They are safer than "full-flavor" cigarettes.
What is false?
However, low-yield cigarettes are not less harmful to health than regular cigarettes. The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009 now prohibits manufacturers from selling or distributing any tobacco products that have “light,” “low,” or “mild” on their labels.
The sticky substance that forms when tobacco burns.
What is tar?
The influence that people your age have on your actions.
What is peer pressure?
Two senses that are heightened after quitting
What is smell and taste?
Name 3 major factors (groups of people/things) that influence teens to smoke.
What are family, friends and advertising/social media?
The cost of smoking a pack of cigarettes a day for a year in Ohio.
A. $1,200
B. $1,800
C. $2,400
C. What is $2,400?
How many teens who smoke end up smoking into adulthood?
3 out of 4
Type of advertising tobacco companies have used:
A. Doctor recommended
B. Cartoons
C. Target specific communities
D. All of the above
D. What is all of the above?
In 2018, what percentage of adult smokers made an attempt to quit tobacco use in the past year?
A. 2%
B. 14%
C. 55%
D. 73%
C. What is 55.1%?
In 2018, 55.1% of adult smokers (21.5 million) said that they had made a quit attempt in the past year.
Each day, about how many youths try their first cigarette?
A. 550
B. 1,600
C. 3,200
C. What is 3,200 youths?
The FDA regulated the manufacturing and marketing of products in the U.S. FDA stands for?
Food and Drug Administration
Name two health effects caused by tobacco use.
What is lung cancer, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, COPD?
What is the amount of money tobacco companies spend on advertising daily?
A. $1 Million
B $22.5 Million
C. $1 Billion
B. What is $22.5 Million?
In 2019, the largest cigarette and smokeless tobacco companies spent $8.2 billion on advertising and promotional expenses in the United States alone.1,2
Name 3 ways to deal with tobacco craving.
What is- Nicotine replacement therapy, avoid triggers, get active, relaxation techniques, call support, drink water, think of benefits