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Definitions
Alcohol
Tobacco
Warning Signs and Refusing
Where to Get Help and Miscellaneous
100
A poison that speeds up the nervous system.
What is nicotine?
100
Poor Coordination, poor judgment, nausea, poor speech, and dizziness.
What are the short term effects of alcohol?
100
In the Americans from Native Americans.
Where did Europeans first discover tobacco?
100
Young adults because they know they will have a more difficult time quitting.
To whom are advertisements for alcohol and tobacco directed?
100
The physical and emotional changes addicts go through after they quit using an addictive substance.
What is withdrawal?
200
Sticky, dark paste left behind when some substances burn.
What are tars?
200
Having a car accident, causing property damage, and hurting friends and family.
What are the social and legal problems that drinking alcohol can cause?
200
Nicotine
What is the harmful substance found in all tobacco products?
200
Say no and walk away, change the subject, or explain you have something else to do.
What are some ways to refuse alcohol or tobacco?
200
Alcoholics.
What are people who suffer from alcoholism?
300
The measurement of the amount of alcohol in a person's blood.
What is blood alcohol level?
300
To look cool, to see what it tastes like, to look grown up.
Why do people choose to try alcohol?
300
Carbon monoxide.
What is the poisonous gas found in tobacco smoke?
300
To be prepared should someone ever offer you tobacco or alcohol; you'll know what to do because you have practiced.
Why is it important to practice saying no to alcohol and tobacco?
300
Deciding to quit.
What is the first and most important step a person can make if he/she has a problem with alcohol or tobacco?
400
Being strongly affected by a drug.
What is intoxicated?
400
Alcoholism
What is addiction to alcohol?
400
The respiratory system, specifically the lungs.
What part of the body is damaged most by smoking tobacco?
400
Drinking more than in the past, hiding alcohol or sneaking drinks, forgetting things because of drinking, lying about drinking, and drinking alone.
What are some signs that someone may have a problem with alcohol?
400
A trusted adult.
Whom should you talk to if you think someone close to you has a problem with alcohol?
500
Substances that cause cancer.
What are carcinogens?
500
Cirrhosis, brain damage, heard disease, mouth cancer, high blood pressure, and stomach ulcers.
What long term effects of alcohol use?
500
More than 60 substances in tobacco are linked to this.
What is cancer?
500
Smoke in the air that both smokers and nonsmokers breathe.
What is environmental tobacco smoke?
500
Hospitals, clinics, community organizations, doctors, counselors, Alcoholics Anonymous, Al-Anon, YWCA, YMCA.
Where can people with a tobacco or alcohol addiction go for help?