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TOBACCO FACTS
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100
The effect Nicotine has on your heart when you smoke.
What is the heart beating faster because blood vessels are narrower and it must work harder?
100
The definition of addiction.
What is a psychological or physical need for or dependence on a substance?
100
Two substances found in tobacco smoke.
What are Nicotine, Carbon Monoxide, Ammonia, Formaldehyde, Cyanide, Lead, Arsenic, and Tar?
100
Three ways to refuse cigarette or tobacco use in social settings, other than saying "no."
What are suggesting an alternative activity, changing the subject, or leaving the situation?
100
Two benefits of living tobacco free.
What is a decreased risk of lung cancer/heart disease/stroke and improved cardiovascular endurance and lung function?
200
Three physical problems that cigarette smoke can cause if a non-smoker is in the same room with someone who is smoking.
What is reddening, itching, or watering of the eyes, wheezing, coughing, colds, earaches, decreased sense of smell and taste, or asthma?
200
The definition of carbon monoxide.
What is a colorless, odorless, poisonous gas produced when tobacco burns?
200
Three reasons why kids try smoking.
What are weight control, rebellion, boredom, independence, curiosity, peer acceptance, advertising, and stress?
200
The definition of peer pressure.
What is the influence exerted by a peer group in encouraging a person to change his or her attitudes, values, or behavior in order to "fit in"?
200
The number of smokers who first tried smoking before age 18.
What is 9 out of 10?
300
Type of lung problem that can develop when parents smoke around children.
What is slower lung growth, asthma, chronic bronchitis, or pneumonia?
300
The definition of mainstream smoke.
What is the smoke exhaled straight from a smokers lungs into the air?
300
The amount that the average one pack a day smoker spends on cigarettes in a year.
What is 3,500 dollars spent on cigarettes per year?
300
Two strategies for preventing use of tobacco.
What are the choice of friends, avoiding situations where tobacco may be used, and practicing refusal skills?
300
The Center for Disease Control's program launched in 2012 that spurred over 1.6 million smokers to try to quit in the first year of the program.
What is Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids?
400
Two short-term effects of smoking on health.
What are stuffy nose, faster breathing, faster heartbeat, increased blood pressure, coughing, and decrease in skin temperature?
400
The definition of withdrawal.
What is the unpleasant symptoms (both physical and psychological) that someone experiences when he or she stops using an addictive substance?
400
The number of U.S. adults who were current smokers in 2014.
What is 40 million?
400
Two factors that reduce tobacco use among teens.
What are antismoking campaigns, financial cost, societal pressures, and family influence?
400
This type of classification of drug that Nicotine falls under, characterized by increasing the action of the nervous system, heart, and other organs.
What is a stimulant?
500
One major effect on the baby when a mother smokes during pregnancy.
What low birth weight, which is linked with an increased risk of infant death and with a variety of infant health disorders?
500
The definition of sidestream smoke.
What is smoke that comes from the burning end of a cigarette, pipe, or cigar?
500
The length of time it takes for your heart rate to slow down after you quit smoking.
What is 20 minutes?
500
These are two strategies that a person who is trying to give up tobacco can use.
What are engaging in pysical activity, replacing tobacco with healthy alternatives, using "quit aids," and setting a target date for quittting.
500
The name of the harmful effect of smokeless tobacco that irritates the mouths tissues and causes spots that can turn into oral cancer.
What is Leukoplakia?