Up in Smoke
This chemical found in cigarettes is also used to preserve corpses.
What is formaldehyde?
This smoke, exhaled by a smoker or off the lit end of their cigarette, is released into the air and inhaled by anyone around them.
What is second hand smoke?
9 out of 10 smokers start before this age.
What is 18?
This smokeless tobacco product causes cancer of the mouth, cheek, and gums.
What is chewing tobacco?
A pack a day smoker loses his many teeth every 10 years.
What is 2?
This component of tobacco is also found in car exhaust.
What is carbon monoxide?
Pets that live in homes of smokers are twice as likely to develop this.
What is cancer?
This percent of all deaths in the US are from tobacco.
What is 20%?
A typical 1-hour session with ones of these is equivalent to smoking 100 cigarettes.
What is a hookah?
This percent of smokeless tobacco users will develop leukoplakia (a condition that causes white, gray, or red patches to appear inside the mouth).
What is 75%?
This solvent, commonly found in nail polish remover, is also present in tobacco smoke.
What is acetone?
This is residue of smoke that remains on surfaces like floors, carpets, walls, clothes, hair, and skin.
What is 3rd hand smoke?
This many deaths each year are related to secondhand smoke.
What is 40,000?
The FDA had not determined if the use of this product is effective in quitting smoking.
What are e-cigarettes?
On average, the life expectancy of a smoker is this many years less than a non-smoker.
What is 10 years?
Of the over 4000 chemicals found in cigarette smoke, this many are known to cause cancer.
What is 70?
This many cigarette butts are littered yearly world-wide.
What is 4.5 trillion?
21% of deaths from these are a result of smoking materials.
What are house fires?
A recent study found that 58% of adult e-cigarette users also did this.
What is smoke cigarettes?
After inhaling tobacco smoke, nicotine rapidly enters the bloodstream, crosses the blood-brain barrier, and reaches the brain within these many seconds.
What is 8-20 seconds?
The average pack a day smoker spends this much each year on cigarettes.
What is $2000.
Women who smoke during pregnancy are more likely to have babies who are born _______.
What is prematurely?
The number of youth taking up smoking increased 73% from 1988-1996, coinciding with the introduction of this character in advertisement.
Who is Joe Camel?
E-Cigerettes have been associated with a nearly 10x increase of national hotline calls for this since 2011.
What is nicotine poisoning?
E-juice that contains the chemical diacetyl (used to add flavor to the e-juices) has been linked to this disorder, that causes scaring on the air sacs in the lungs.
What is popcorn lung?