This is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States
What is Smoking?
100
Each day in the United States, approximately how many adolescents aged 12-17 try their first cigarette
What is 4,000?
100
This group of people is most affected by secondhand smoke
Who are small children?
200
Because their bodies are still developing, exposure to the poisons in secondhand smoke puts children in danger of severe respiratory diseases and may hinder the growth of which organ
What are the lungs?
200
This is the leading preventable cause of disease, disability, and death in the United States
What is Tobacco Use?
200
What causes heart disease, stroke, chronic lung disease, and cancers of the lung, mouth, pharynx, esophagus, and bladder
What is Cigarette Smoking?
300
The use of this causes cancers of the mouth, pharynx and esophagus; gum recession; and an increased risk for heart disease and stroke
What is smokeless tobacco?
300
This percentage of high school students have ever tried cigarette smoking, even one or two puffs
What is 50%?
300
Arsenic, methane, and ammonia are found in this type of product.
What are cigarettes ?
300
At the age of 53, this famous Baseball Player, who led the New York Yankees to seven American League championships and four World Series titles, died of Naso-pharyngeal Cancer.
Who is George Herman Ruth, Jr. (Babe Ruth)?
400
This can cause dry skin and premature wrinkles
What is Tobacco Use?
400
What percent of high school students have smoked a whole cigarette before age 13
This has neither passed through a filter nor through the lungs of a smoker and is therefore extremely potent, containing more tar, nicotine, particles, and gases than inhaled smoke
What is Secondhand Smoke?
500
What group of people who use smokeless tobacco are more likely than nonusers to become cigarette smokers
Who are Teenagers?
500
This many youth are exposed to secondhand smoke every day