Vocabulary
Addictive drug in tobacco
What is nicotine?
The amount of hazardous compounds that are in a burning cigarette
What is 4,000?
Another term for secondhand smoke
What is environmental tobacco smoke?
Nicotine is considered to be a __________
What is a stimulant?
The chemicals present in tobacco
What are tars?
Cancer causing agents
What are carcinogens?
The amount of people that die each year in the U.S due to repeated secondhand smoke
What is 41,000?
Sean Marsee age when he died of cancer
What is 19 years old?
An infection of the tissues and bones that support the teeth
What is gum disease?
The type of cancers caused by smoke
What is lung, throat, tongue, stomach, and bladder cancer?
Colorless, odorless gas found in the cigarette smoke that blocks oxygen into the blood stream
What is carbon monoxide?
What is $5.51?
Smoking is the _______ leading preventable cause of death in the U.S
What is the 1st?
A condition that involves the destruction of the air sacs in the lungs
What is emphysema?
The common types of tobacco
What are cigarettes, smokeless tobacco, cigars?
Whitish or grayish patches in the mouth of tobacco users which leads to cancer
What is leukoplakia?
The deaths contributed each year to all types of cigarette smoke
What is 480,000?
This cartoon used to be sponsored by and advertised for Winston cigarettes
What is the Flintstones?
When trying to quit using nicotine, _________ is to gradually decrease the amount of nicotine taken in until none is used.
What is nicotine substitutes?
The two main types of smokeless tobacco
What is chewing tobacco and snuff?
Breakdown of lung tissue
What is emphysema?
The price of a pack of cigarettes is discussed in class
What is $6.50?
This president sent out Christmas cartons of cigarettes during his term in office
Who is Ronald Reagan?
_______ is the biggest reason people in the U.S lose their teeth
What is gum disease?
Who was 19 years old and died from oral cancer (discussed in class)
Who is Sean Marsee?