Youth & Tobacco
Approximately what percent of teens currently smoke cigarettes?
8%
16%
24%
32%
According to data from Monitoring the future (MTF),
8.0% of teens are current cigarette smokers.
What is second hand smoke?
A mixture of smoke given off by burning end of cigarettes, pipes, or cigars, and exhaled from smokers.
True or False. Tobacco use is more common among individuals with lower socioeconomic status?
True. A total of 29.2% of adults who live below poverty line smoke, compared to 16.2% of those at or above the poverty line.
What are e-cigarettes?
Electronic cigarettes are battery-operated devices designed to deliver nicotine with flavorings and other chemicals to users in vapor instead of smoke.
Increasing the price of tobacco products is the single most effective way to reduce consumption. What percentage increase has reduced consumption by 3-5%?
5%
10%
20%
35%
50%
A 10% increase in price has been estimated to reduce overall cigarette consumption by 3–5%. Research on cigarette consumption suggests that both youth and young adults are two to three times more likely to respond to increases in price than adults.
Roughly how many high schools students (grades 9-12) have ever tried a cigarette?
40%
60%
65%
75%
A total of 41.1 % of high school students (grades 9-12) have ever tried cigarette.
Exposure to second hand smoke increases the risk of developing what type of cancer in nonsmokers by 20-30%?
Lung cancer
Approximately how many ingredients are found in cigarettes?
100
200
400
600
There are approximately 600 ingredients in cigarettes. At least 69 of these chemicals are known human or animal carcinogens.
Are e-cigarettes safer than regular cigarettes?
Insufficient information is available. Although the do not produce tobacco smoke, e-cigarettes still contain nicotine and other potentially harmful unregulated chemicals.
True or false. Which of the following vape/ e-cigarette companies have recently changed their policies concerning the sale of their products, in an effort to "reduce" use among minors and kids.
Blu
Vuse
Juul
XL
MarkTen
Juul. In November 2018, Juul developed a plan indicating that they would stop the sale of most flavored pods in more than 90,000 US retail stores and shutting some of its social media accounts.
By what age do 90% of smokers begin smoking as a teenager?
Almost 90% of smokers start smoking by 18 years of age.
Deaths caused by second hand smoke exposure have a higher impact on what two racial/ethnic groups in the United States?
African-Americans & Hispanics
By how many years is life expectancy shortened among smokers, as compared with those who have never smoked?
2
5
10
15
By at least 10 years.
True or False- E-cigarettes use may serve as an introductory product for youth who then go on to use other tobacco products?
True
True or false. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration currently bans the sale of e-cigarettes and tobacco products to those under 21.
False. The FDA has banned the sale of e-cigarettes and tobacco products to those under 18. However, some states have gone above to restrict sales to only those over 21.
Do a higher percentage of teen males or teen females smoke cigarettes?
Males. A total of 10.6% of male high school students are current smokers. A total of 7.9% of female high school students are current cigarette smokers. High school males use smokeless tobacco eight times that of females (male: 9.9%, female 1.2%)
How many people in the United States die from second hand smoke related diseases each year?
12,000
22,000
42,000
62,000
In the U.S. about 42,000 people die each year from second hand smoke related diseases.
Tobacco-related disease is the leading cause of preventable death in the U.S., causing approximately how many deaths per year?
480,000 deaths per year
(more than 278,000 among men and more than 201,000 among women).
What is the act of inhaling from an e-cigarette called?
Vaping
How much money did manufacturers spend in total on smoking tobacco advertising in 2016?
276 million
339 million
534 million
684.9 million
759.3 million
Manufacturers spent a total of $759.3 million on smokeless tobacco advertising and promotion during 2016—an increase from $684.9 million in 2015.
Roughly what percent of middle school students currently use any tobacco products, including cigarettes, cigars, smokeless tobacco, tobacco pipes, hookahs, electronic cigarettes?
7%
10%
12%
13%
Overall, 7.7% of middle school students (grades 6-8) currently use any tobacco product.
Roughly how many chemical compounds are found in second hand smoke?
1000
3000
5000
7000
Second hand Smoke contains over 7,000 chemical and compounds.
How many children who are younger than 18 will die prematurely from smoking?
2.5 million
5.6 million
7.5 million
5.6 million of today’s Americans younger than 18 will die early. (CDC)
Roughly how many brands of e-cigarettes are currently on the market?
50
140
250
460
More than 460 different e-cigarette brands are currently on the market.
True/False. E-cigarettes are not currently regulated or required to go through pre-market review by the FDA in the United States.
True. They are not regulated and manufacturers are not required as of yet to inform what’s in the solution. Additionally, FDA in 2017 indicated that would allow such products to stay on shelves until 2022 without pre-market review.