Tobacco
An Odorless, poisonous gas that is found in tobacco.
What is carbon monoxide?
the amount of alcohol in a person’s bloodstream.
What is BAC?
A chemical substance that is taken to cause changes in a person’s body or behavior.
What is a drug?
A disease of the lung and the #1 killer of smoking-related diseases.
What is lung cancer?
A drug that slows the brain and body reactions. Alcohol is an example of this type of drug.
What is a depressant?
these are examples of smokeless tobacco.
What is snuff and chewing tobacco?
When a drinker drinks too much alcohol in one sitting.
What is binge drinking?
Taking so much of a drug that is can lead to a coma or death.
What is an overdose?
Cancer causing agents found in cigarettes.
what are carcinogens?
PCP and mushrooms are examples of this type of drug
What are hallucinogens?
A dark, sticky substance that forms when tobacco is burned.
What is Tar?
A condition in which less and less alcohol causes intoxication.
What is reverse tolerance?
These types of drugs can be purchased at the store.
what are “over the counter” drugs?
A group of birth defects caused by the effects of alcohol on an unborn child.
What is fetal alcohol syndrome?
these Drugs are substances that will give off psychoactive vapors that’s the user will sniff.
What are inhalants?
smoke that goes directly into the air from the burning cigarette.
What is sidestream smoke?
A group of symptoms that occur after stopping the drug.
What is withdrawal?
A written order from a doctor granting permission to buy the drug.
What is a prescription?
a disease that occurs after a person continues to smoke for a long period of time and results in a gradual loss of lung function.
What is chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)?
Drugs that are powerful painkillers and produce painful withdrawal symptoms.
What are narcotics?
Smoke that is exhaled from a smokers lungs
What is mainstream smoke?
A period of time that the drinker cannot recall or remember.
What is a blackout?
This occurs when each drug’s effect is canceled out or reduced by the other.
What is drug antagonism?
A disease when a drinker‘s liver develops scar tissue.
What is cirrhosis?
A drug that alters mood and the perception of time or reality.
What is a psychoactive drug?