Tobacco
What chemical in tobacco causes the heart rate and blood pressure to increase?
What is nicotine?
A _____ is a drug that slows the brain and body reactions. Alcohol is an example of this type of drug.
What is depressant?
A chemical substance that people of any age may not lawfully manufacture, possess, buy or sell is called what?
What are Illegal Drugs?
This is the disease of the lung, and the #1 killer.
What is lung cancer?
What are Stimulants?
Which chemical in tobacco is an odorless, poisonous gas?
What is Carbon Monoxide?
What is the amount of alcohol in a person's blood called?
What is BAC?
What is the term for using medicines improperly called?
What is Drug Misuse?
What is the name of the illness where there is inflammation of the bronchii?
What is Chronic Bronchitis?
What drugs distort sensory function and distort brains perception Of reality?
What are Hallucinogens?
“Snuff” is placed between the ____ and the ____.
What is the lower lip and gums?
What occurs when drugs interact to produce effects greater than a drug would produce alone?
What is Drug Synergism?
When the brain develops a chemical need for alcohol and can’t function properly with it, it’s called _________.
What is Dependence?
If a person continues to smoke over a long period of time, they are at risk for developing ______________, which is a disease that results in a gradual loss of lung function.
What is Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)?
These drugs are obtained from the poppy plant.
What are Narcotics?
What is the combination of mainstream and sidestream smoke called?
What is Secondhand Smoke?
What is it called when a person's mental and physical abilities are impaired by alcohol?
What is intoxication?
What are drugs that are responsible for alternating mood, perceptions of time and/or reality.
What are Psychoactive Drugs?
What disease does it show white patches on the tongue/mouth?
What is Leukoplakia?
These drugs produce a powerful high (short lived) followed by “crashing”, which leads to a powerful addiction.
What are Stimulants?
Smoke that is exhaled from the smoker's lungs is called ___________?
What is Mainstream smoke?
What is the name of the disease when a drinker's liver develops scar tissue?
What is Cirrhosis?
What action occurs when each drug's effect is canceled out or reduced by the other?
What is Drug Antagonism?
Air sacs cannot contract because of tar build-up.
What is Emphysema?
This Classification is drugs such as barbiturates and tranquilizers.
What are Depressants?