Facts
An addictive drug found in tobacco leaves and in all tobacco products.
What is nicotine?
Congress passed a law requiring all tobacco manufacturers to print health warnings in this year.
What is 1965?
A process in which the body needs more and more of a drug to get the same effect.
What is tolerance?
Pressure you feel to go along with harmful behaviors or beliefs of others your age.
What is peer pressure?
What are alveoli?
A poisonous, colorless, oderless gas.
What is carbon dioxide?
A condition in which passages in the lungs become swollen and irritated, eventually losing their elasticity.
What is COPD - chronic obstructive pulmonary disease?
A type of addiction in which the body itself feels a direct need for a drug.
What is physical dependence?
Smoke that comes directly from a burning cigarette, pipe or cigar.
What is sidestream smoke?
One large cigar can contain as much tobacco as this.
What is a pack of cigarettes?
Ground tobacco that is chewed or inhaled through nose.
The _____________ in tobacco and tobacco smoke can cause damage to most of the body's systems.
What are chemicals?
A type of addiction in which the mind sends the body a message that it needs more of a drug.
What is psychological dependence?
Smoke that exhaled by the smoker.
What is mainstream smoke?
The process of using smokeless tobacco is called this.
There are over ____________ chemicals in tobacco.
What is 4,000?
Smoking is the #1 cause of lung cancer, causing ________% of all lung cancer cases.
What is 87?
_________% of the people who start smoking become addicted.
What is 90?
In addition to paying for cigarettes, smokers also pay more for _________ _____________ (2 words).
What is health insurance?
Withdrawal symptoms may occur as soon as ____ minutes after the last cigarette.
What is 30?
A thick, oily, dark liquid that forms when tobacco is burned.
What is tar?
A disease of the heart and blood vessels.
What is cardiovascular disease?
The physical and psychological reactions that occur when someone stops using an addictive substance.
A nonsmoker who breathes in secondhand smoke.
What are nicotine replacement therapies?