Tobacco Facts

E-Cigarettes

100

True or False: E-cigarettes are a healthy alternative to smoking.

What is FALSE

200

True or False: E-cigarettes can't help people quit smoking.

What is TRUE

300

In June 2024, e-cigarette dollar sales totaled $ million.

What is $488.9.

S: CDC

400

This is produced from E-cigarettes, which are battery-operated devices that heat a liquid.

What is aerosol?

500

As of June 2024, nearly x amount of different e-cigarette products are available for purchase in the United States. With disposable e-cigarettes in youth-appealing flavors being the most commonly sold device type.

What is 6,300?

S: CDC

Types of Smoke

100

This is the smoke exhaled by the smoker, which is released into the air and inhaled by anyone around them.

What is second hand smoke?

200

This smoke is inhaled by the smoker.

What is first hand smoke?

300

This is the residue of the smoke that remains on all surfaces. ex: floors, carpeting, walls, clothing, hair, skin

What is third hand smoke?

400

This is the smoke that comes directly off the tip of a cigarette. This smoke has higher concentration of chemicals because it does not pass through the filter.

What is side stream smoke?

500

This is the most harmful type of smoke.

What is first hand smoke?

Youth and Tobacco

100

87% of the time, the first use of tobacco occurs before this age.

What is 18?

S. ALA

200

2,500 individuals younger than age 18 smoke their first cigarette every ___ day(s)?

What is one day?

S. ALA

300

In the United States, approximately this many youth (ages 12-17) smoked their first cigarette in 2021

What is 362,000?

S: Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

400

Advertising, adult influence, and peer pressure are the three main _______.

What is influences to smoke?

500

This is a requirement that all businesses that sell tobacco products pay a fee to obtain a license from the government in exchange for selling the products to consumers.

What is Tobacco Retail Licensing?

Harmful Chemicals

100

This chemical found in cigarettes is also a preservative for corpses.

What is formaldehyde?

200

This chemical found in cigarettes can make you addicted to cigarettes in as little as a few weeks.

What is nicotine?

300

This chemical found in cigarettes is also found in car exhaust.

What is carbon monoxide?

400

This chemical found in tobacco is also found in nail polish remover.

What is acetone?

500

Of the 4000 chemicals found in cigarette smoke, this number of them cause cancer.

What is 43?

TOFCO Partners

100

This is a nonprofit organization that is the largest and oldest voluntary organization in the United States that focuses on reducing the risk of stroke and heart disease. 

What is the American Heart Association?

What is AHA?

200

This is a growing statewide movement of more than 60 organizations representing thousands of Oregonians that are working to protect our kids from tobacco addiction by passing Senate Bill 702.

What is The Flavors Hook Oregon Kids?

What is FHOK?

300

This is a non-profit, also volunteer-driven organization, dedicated to supporting Micronesian Communities through cross-cultural education and awareness since 2013.

What is Living Islands?

400

This organization works with local organizations, other government programs and agencies, businesses, and community members to prevent chronic disease and improve the collective health of Black and African communities (including immigrants and refugees) of Multnomah County.

What is Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health?

What is REACH?

500

ALA stands for this.

What is American Lung Association?