Chapter 9
A chemical in tobacco causes the heart rate to go up?
What is nicotine?
White patches on the tongue and mouth.
What is Leukoplakia?
Drugs that slow down the nervous system.
What are depressants?
examples of smokeless tobacco.
What is snuff and chewing tobacco?
Taking so much of a drug that it leads to coma of death.
What is overdose?
A chemical in tobacco that is odorless, and a poisonous gas.
What is Carbon Monoxcide?
inflammation of the bronchii.
What is chronic bronchitis?
A condition in which more of a drug is needed to get the same effect.
What is tolerance?
cancer causing agents.
What are carcinogens?
Liver disease that develops scar tissues when consuming too much alcohol for too long.
What is cirrhosis?
A chemical that is a dark, sticky substance that forms when tobacco is burned.
What is tar?
#1 killer and it’s a lung disease.
What is lung cancer?
When someone abuses a drug and becomes dependent on it.
What is addiction?
A disease that develops when smoking continues over a long period of time.
What is chronic obstructive pulmonary disease?
Feeling effects of an upset stomach and headache after a night out of drinking.
What is a hangover?
Smoke that is exhaled from the smokers lungs.
What is mainstream smoke?
Air sacs cannot contact from tar build up.
What is emphysema?
An unpleasant reaction when a drug is no longer taken.
What is withdrawal?
Punished for being caught with any amount of alcohol.
What is zero tolerance policy?
Period of time a drinker cannot recall or remember what had happened.
What is a blackout?
Smoke that goes directly into the air from the burning cigarette.
What is sidestream smoke?
Combination of mainstream and sidestream smoke.
What is 2nd hand smoking?
A drug that can be purchased without a doctors order.
What is over the counter?
The amount of alcohol in a persons blood.
What is BAC?
When a drinker consumes too much alcohol in one sitting.
What is binge drinking?