Effects on Body Systems
Air sacs found at the end of the bronchioles
What is alveoli
Smoking one of these is about the same as smoking a pack of cigarettes due to much higher levels of tar and nicotine
What is cigars
What do you call a nonsmoker who breathes in secondhand smoke
What is passive smoker
This is the chemical stimulant in tobacco products that causes addiction
What is nicotine
When a person decides to immediately stop using tobacco or tobacco product with nicotine
What is cold turkey
Nicotine from cigarettes and juuls can paralyze these structures in the respiratory system
What are cilia
Cigarettes change the brain's chemistry by increasing receptors on the brain that interact with nicotine in this step of the nicotine addiction cycle
What is step 2 of the NAC
This is the name for the secondhand smoke exhaled by the smoker
What is mainstream smoke
This chemical is a poisonous gas that robs the blood of oxygen
What is carbon monoxide
This is the increased rate at which nicotine causes a user's heart to beat
What is 10 more beats per minute
In addition to causing bronchitis and emphysema, smoking is also the most important preventable cause of what disease that effects the heart
What is cardiovascular disease
Nicotine in cigarettes causes this organ to work much harder than necessary without the benefit of other muscle groups
What is the heart
This type of secondhand smoke is more dangerous to the nonsmoker, or passive smoker
What is sidestream smoke
Tar results from burning tobacco or marijuana. The result is a substance that can cause cancer called a
What is carcinogen
If a woman smokes during pregnancy, her baby can be born with lower birth weight. Babies with low birth weights are at higher risk for:
infant death (SIDS), birth defects
Nicotine contributes to what stomach problem
What is peptic ulcers
This kind of tobacco is not a safe alternative to smoking
What is smokeless tobacco
Children of smokers are more likely to have what illnesses
What is asthma, bronchitis
Name 3 withdrawal symptoms a person may experience when trying to quit smoking, chewing, or vaping?
headache, trouble sleeping, constant hunger, restlessness, jittery, feeling hopeless, nausea, irritability, shakiness, drowsiness, difficulty concentrating
These are products that assist a person in breaking a tobacco habit
What is nicotine replacement therapies
If smokers suffer from chronic bronchitis, asthma, or emphysema they have the inflammatory lung disease called.....
What is COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)?
This type of product is made from raw tobacco and is flavored with cinnamon and cloves, usually imported from Canada and Mexico
What is specialty cigarettes
This is the number of nonsmokers that die of lung cancer each year
What is 3,000
Name one of the dozens of chemicals that can be found in tobacco products (may not name nicotine, carbon monoxide, tar)--from the yellow packet Tobacco Facts
What is arsenic, benzene, formaldehyde, hydrogen cyanide, hydrogen sulfide
This is the newer name for secondhand smoke
Environmental Tobacco Smoke