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Basics
Short Term/Long Term
Teens and Tobacco
Quitting
Secondhand Smoke
100
Describe what an ad in the media for tobacco usually looks like
Healthy attractive people, looks like tobacco won't harm you, they appear to enjoy it.
100
Brain Chemistry Changes
short term
100
The number of nonsmokers in the US is on the rise- true or false?
True!! :)
100
Most people who stop using tobacco will experience symptoms of
nicotine withdrawal
100

Another name for secondhand smoke is

What is ETS ( Environmental Tobacco Smoke)

200
When did about 90% of adult smokers begin to smoke?
when they were teenagers
200
Yellow teeth and nails
short term
200
What are two reasons that teens start smoking?
Falsely believe that it will help them control their weight or cope with stress, seem mature or independent, may be influenced by the media.
200
List at least 3 symptoms of nicotine withdrawal.
Anxiety, Cravings, irritability, headaches, shaking
200

What is mainstream smoke?

Smoke that is exhaled from the lungs of a smoker 

300
A colorless, odorless, poisonous gas that comes from tobacco smoke is called.
carbon monoxide
300
Emphysema
long term
300
What are 3 reasons why fewer teens are using tobacco?
Tobacco Legislation, no-smoking policies, family values, positive peer pressure, health risks
300
What is a nicotine substitute designed to do?
It is a product that delivers small amounts of nicotine into the body to reduce cravings to smoke or use tobacco products while in the process of quitting
300
Why is sidestream smoke more dangerous than mainstream smoke?
It contains more carcinogens, nicotine, carbon monoxide, and tar because it has not been filtered or exhaled by a smoker.
400
A cancer causing substance is called a...
carcinogen
400
Lung Cancer
long term
400
How can you avoid tobacco?
Surround yourself with positive influences, reduce peer pressure, practice refusal skills
400
Tobacco users can still smoke in small amounts when using nicotine substitutes - true or false
false
400
What are some of the health risks to unborn babies from ETS?
Constricted blood vessels, reduced oxygen levels, low birth weight, growth and developmental problems, miscarriage
500
Leukoplakia are white painful sores in the mouth that cause cancer caused by what?
smokeless/chewing tobacco
500
Heart Rate and respiration increase
short term
500
What are 5 reasons why teens quit using tobacco?
Begin to have health problems, difficult to purchase, leads to other risky behaviors, realize that secondhand smoke is dangerous, do not want to be controlled by addiction
500
What are 4 strategies people can use to help them quit smoking?
prepare for the quit day, get support and encouragement, access professional health services, replace tobacco use with healthy behaviors
500
What are the health risks for young children?
More sore throats, ear infections, upper respiratory problems, slower lung development, weaker lungs, more than twice as likely to smoke themselves some day than children of non-smokers.