Facts
Smoke inhaled by nonsmokers from others who are smoking cigarettes, cigars, hookahs or vapes is called this.
What is secondhand smoke.
Secondhand smoke is the combination of smoke from the burning end of a cigarette and the smoke breathed out by smokers. Secondhand smoke contains more than 7,000 chemicals. Hundreds are toxic, and about 70 can cause cancer. Since the 1964 Surgeon General’s Report, 2.5 million adults who were nonsmokers died because they breathed secondhand smoke. There is no risk-free level of exposure to secondhand smoke. Secondhand smoke causes numerous health problems in infants and children, including more frequent and severe asthma attacks, respiratory infections, ear infections, and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). Smoking during pregnancy results in more than 1,000 infant deaths annually. Some of the health conditions caused by secondhand smoke in adults include coronary heart disease, stroke, and lung cancer.
This is the legal age for purchasing and using tobacco in New York State.
What is 21.
This law pertains to all tobacco products, including smoking paraphernalia and e-cigarettes. The longer somebody can go before they start smoking, the better their chances are of not starting at all. 90% of lifetime smokers start before they turn 19.
Smoking a pack a day can cause a hormonal imbalance in women, which can result in facial hair. Is this statement true or false?
What is true.
Excess hair growth in women is triggered due to an increase in testosterone.
Myth or Fact?
Smoking is a choice.
The first time: What is Fact. After just a few cigarettes: What is Myth.
Addiction to nicotine can happen quickly. It changes the chemical balance in your brain. Smoking may seem like it is just a choice or a habit. In fact, most people who use tobacco are addicted. Breaking nicotine addiction is harder for some people than others. Quitting can take several tries. But don't give up. If you need help to quit, ask your doctor about nicotine replacement, medicines or coaching.
This is the most addictive drug known to us.
What is nicotine.
The majority of smokers would like to stop smoking, and each year about half try to quit permanently. Yet, only about 6 percent of smokers are able to quit in a given year. Most smokers will need to make multiple attempts before they are able to quit permanently. The way that nicotine is processed by the body, contributes to its highly addictive nature. When cigarette smoke enters the lungs, nicotine is absorbed rapidly in the blood and delivered quickly to the brain, so that nicotine levels peak within 10 seconds of inhalation. But the acute effects of nicotine also dissipate quickly, along with the associated feelings of reward. This rapid cycle causes the smoker to continue dosing to maintain the drug’s pleasurable effects and prevent withdrawal symptoms.
This is the number of minutes that are taken off of a smoker's life, per cigarette smoked.
What is 7-11 minutes.
Research has shown that smoking reduces life expectancy by seven to eight years. In other words, the time it takes you to smoke a cigarette is approximate to the time it will take off of your life.
New York State Law requires all tobacco products to be located out of ______ of consumers within store.
What is reach.
Self-service displays are no longer allowed in retail stores; they are prohibited. Tobacco products must be located behind the counter or within a locked cabinet.
Name four organs of the body that are affected by the use of tobacco, aside from the lungs.
What are the mouth, skin, tongue, throat, larynx, pharynx, esophagus, pancreas, uterus, brain, and bladder.
Many complications, including cancer, can arise in these organs due to the use of tobacco.
Myth or Fact?
E-cigarettes contain nicotine.
What is Fact.
A 2014 study showed wide-ranging nicotine levels in e-cigarettes, and inconsistencies between listed and actual nicotine levels in these products. Nicotine is an addictive substance that can have negative health impacts, especially on adolescent brain development. The more nicotine a person uses, the greater the potential for addiction.
Name the risks associated with smoking while pregnant.
What are: low birth weight, premature birth, possible death, cleft lip or palate.
Most people know that smoking causes cancer, heart disease, and other major health problems. Smoking during pregnancy causes additional health problems. It can also make it harder for a woman to become pregnant if she is a smoker.
Increased blood pressure and heart rate, narrowed arteries, smelly breath and clothes, are all short term effects of what.
What is smoking.
If continued, these short term effects can get worse and have long lasting effects on personal health and appearance.
This is the name of the legislation that makes it illegal to smoke tobacco in nearly all indoor, and certain outdoor, public and work places.
What is the Clean Indoor Act (CIAA).
This law was enacted in 1989 and last amended in October of 2017 to include vaping. Exemptions are allowed for cigar bars that came to exist prior to December 31, 2002, for organizations that do not have employees and, effective November 22, 2017, retail electronic cigarette stores, provided that such stores only permit the use of electronic cigarettes.
Name three symptoms of nicotine poisoning.
What are abdominal cramps, nausea, vomiting, rapid breathing and heart rate, twitching muscles/convulsions, confusion/agitation, coma, drooling, headache, fainting, slurred speech, and death.
Simply put, nicotine poisoning happens when you have too much of it in your body. The amount that causes overdose depends on factors such as your body weight and where the nicotine came from. Usually, someone who gets quick, proper care will recover fully. But, a severe case of poisoning could have long-lasting effects. The CDC says 50 to 60 milligrams of nicotine is a deadly dose for an adult who weighs about 150 pounds. As little as 10mg can be deadly for a small child. A cigarette contains 1mg.
Myth or Fact?
E-cigarettes aren't marketed to kids.
What is Myth.
With aggressive industry tactics such as cartoon characters and candy flavors, including bubble gum, fruit loops, chocolate, and strawberry, it is no surprise that studies show a dramatic increase in kids using e-cigarettes. For the first time ever, teens are smoking e-cigarettes more than traditional cigarettes.
Smoking reduces this to the brain.
What is oxygen.
Smoking often creates a "buzzed" feeling. It also narrows blood vessels and can lead to strokes. Nicotine changes the brain in ways that lead to addiction, both physical and psychological.
This is the number of teenagers that light up for the first time everyday.
What is 3,300.
Nearly 9 out of 10 cigarette smokers first tried smoking by age 18, and 98% first tried smoking by age 26. Each day in the United States, more than 3,200 youth aged 18 years or younger smoke their first cigarette, and an additional 2,100 youth and young adults become daily cigarette smokers.
Which federal agency currently regulates the ingredients, purity, and safety of e-cigarettes?
What is the Food and Drug Administration.
Tobacco use is the single largest preventable cause of disease and death in the United States. Since 2009, FDA has regulated cigarettes, smokeless, and roll-your-own tobacco. FDA finalized a rule, effective August 8, 2016, to regulate all tobacco products, including e-cigarettes.
Approximately this number of people die per year of a tobacco related death.
What is 480,000.
This includes 41,000 annual deaths resulting from secondhand smoke exposure. This is about one in five deaths annually, or 1,300 deaths every day. On average, smokers die 10 years earlier than nonsmokers.
Myth or Fact?
Secondhand smoke may bother people, but it isn't dangerous.
What is Myth.
Tens of thousands of nonsmokers die every year from breathing others' secondhand smoke. Breathing the chemicals in tobacco smoke changes your bloods chemistry almost immediately. Deadly clots can form and block arteries to your heart or brain. When you smoke at work, home, or at a restaurant, everyone there breathes your poisons. If you smoke in your car, rolling down a window does not protect your passengers. It is not healthy to breathe any amount of tobacco smoke.
This is the amount of time it takes for nicotine to reach your brain once inhaled.
What is 7-10 seconds.
The nicotine in inhaled tobacco smoke moves from the lungs into the bloodstream and up to a smoker's brain within 7-10 seconds. Once there, nicotine triggers a number of chemical reactions that create temporary feelings of pleasure for the smoker, but these sensations are short lived, subsiding within minutes.
Smoking a pack of cigarettes a day in NY will cost you approximately this much money in one year.
What is $4,015.
At an average of $10 a pack, a pack a day habit really adds up! Just think of the things you can buy with $4000+ a year.
What are two ways that tobacco companies have targeted youth in the past that are no longer legal.
What are product placement, TV advertisement, use of cartoons, advertisements in kids magazines, and flavored cigarettes.
Enacted in 1985, the Cigarette Marketing Standards Act (CMSA) also prohibits the sale of cigarettes below cost, and makes it illegal for retailers to intentionally avoid the collection or payment of taxes. The CMSA includes fines and penalties for violations. In addition to these state laws, many organizations, businesses and municipalities have adopted binding or nonbinding policies and resolutions that prohibit smoking. These policies include prohibiting smoking in multi-unit housing complexes, banning smoking and tobacco use in outdoor spaces, prohibiting the acceptance of tobacco company funds or services, opposing retail (point of sale) tobacco marketing and advertising, and working to reduce the impact of adolescent exposure to smoking in movies and on the internet.
Tar and carbon monoxide combine to create this in your circulatory system.
What is heart disease.
When inhaled, carbon monoxide, instead of oxygen, is picked up by the hemoglobin of your red blood cells. The result is less oxygen being transported around your body. It also causes intravascular inflammation. This can promote the development of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease.
Myth or Fact?
There is no secondhand smoke emitted from e-cigarettes.
What is Myth.
The aerosol (vapor) emitted by e-cigarettes and exhaled by users contains carcinogens, such as formaldehyde, according to early studies. Little is known about these emissions or the potential harm they can cause.
This is the number of chemicals in one cigarette.
What is 600+.
When burned, cigarettes create more than 7,000 chemicals. At least 69 of these are known to cause cancer, and many are poisonous. Some of the chemicals that can be found are: Acetone (nail polish remover), Acetic Acid (ingredient in hair dye), Ammonia (common household cleaner), Arsenic (used in rat poison), Benzene (found in rubber cement), Butane (lighter fluid), Cadmium (active component in battery acid), Carbon Monoxide, Formaldehyde (embalming fluid), Hexamine (found in barbecue lighter fluid), Lead (used in batteries), Naphthalene (ingredient in mothballs), Methanol (main component in rocket fuel), Nicotine (used as insecticide), Tar (material for paving roads), Toluene (used to manufacture paint).