A gaseous substance comprised of a complex mixture of chemicals, including carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, cyanide, and ammonia.
What is tobacco smoke?
100
The leading preventable cause of disease, disability, and death in the U.S.
What is tobacco use?
100
How your hair, clothing, breath, car, and home smells after quitting smoking.
What is good?
100
Compound that causes the addicting effects of commercial tobacco products.
What is nicotine?
100
Smoking more than 1 pack of _________ per day during pregnancy nearly doubles the risk that the affected child will become addicted to tobacco if that child starts smoking.
What are cigarettes?
200
Common name for the mixture of particulate matter and toxic chemicals inhaled when a smoker draws on a lighted cigarette.
What is "tar"?
200
A poisonous gas found in the blood of all tobacco smokers
What is carbon monoxide?
200
How food tastes after quitting smoking.
What is better?
200
It’s never too _______ to quit smoking.
What is late?
200
Boys whose mothers smoke while _________ have a greater risk of behavioral problems.
What is pregnant?
300
4,000
What is the number of chemicals found in tobacco smoke?
300
The hormone released by the adrenal glands that stimulates the central nervous system, and increases blood pressure, respiration, and heart rate in tobacco smokers.
What is epinephrine (adrenaline)?
300
How you feel when you exercise after quitting smoking.
What is better?
300
Like cocaine, heroin, and marijuana, nicotine increases levels of this neurotransmitter, affecting the brain pathways that control reward and pleasure.
What is dopamine?
300
Kids who watch _________ depicting smoking are more likely to smoke.
What are movies?
400
60
What is the number of cancer-causing compounds in cigarette smoke?
400
Multiple studies have shown that the ________ of broken bones in smokers takes significantly longer than in nonsmokers.
What is healing?
400
$ 2,300.00
What is the amount of money saved in one year by a smoker of 1 pack per day who quits?
In what fluids does nicotine concentrate in a pregnant woman?
500
The amount of nicotine absorbed from smoking one cigarette, which is enough to cause addiction.
What is 1-2 mg?
500
A substance elevated in the blood of chronic (longterm) tobacco smokers due to suppression of insulin output in the pancreas by nicotine
What is glucose (blood sugar)?
500
How long it takes after quitting smoking for the blood oxygen level to increase and carbon monoxide level to decrease to normal ranges.
What is 12 hours?
500
Small rapid doses of nicotine produce alertness and arousal, as opposed to long drawn-out doses, which induce relaxation and sedation. Because of this, cigarette smoking acts as a _____-altering drug.
What is mood?
500
Substance that is a known cause of respiratory symptoms, sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), acute respiratory infections, ear problems, and more frequent and severe asthma attacks in children.