Nicotine & Smoking
This highly addictive stimulant is found in smoking products.
What is nicotine?
This is a device that turns liquid into an aerosol.
What is an e-cigarette?
This is drug use as intended or prescribed.
What is drug use?
This type of drug increases energy and alertness.
What are stimulants?
This is when your body needs more of a drug to feel the same effect.
What is tolerance?
This is how nicotine affects your heart.
What is it increases heart rate and blood pressure?
This is what an e-cigarette does.
What is it heats a liquid into an aerosol that is inhaled?
This is using a drug incorrectly.
What is drug misuse?
This type of drug relieves pain.
What are opioids (pain relievers)?
This is when your body needs a drug to function normally.
What is dependence?
This is how nicotine affects blood vessels.
What is it narrows blood vessels and reduces oxygen flow?
This is the difference between an e-cigarette and a vape.
What is there is no major difference; vape is a general term?
This is using drugs in a harmful or illegal way.
What is drug abuse?
Name different ways drugs can be administered.
What are oral, injection, inhalation, snorting, and skin absorption?
These are symptoms when a drug is stopped.
What is withdrawal?
These laws helped decrease cigarette smoking in the U.S.
What are smoke-free indoor air laws and Tobacco 21 / tobacco taxes?
This is the liquid used in e-cigarettes called.
What is e-liquid or vape juice?
Give an example of drug use.
What is taking prescribed medicine correctly (like antibiotics as directed)?
This is what opioids do to the body.
What is they reduce pain but slow breathing and can cause addiction?
This is compulsive drug use even when harmful.
What is addiction?
This is why smoking laws were created.
What is to reduce health risks and protect people from secondhand smoke?
This chemical used for flavoring can damage lungs.
What is diacetyl?
Give an example of drug misuse or abuse.
What is taking someone else’s prescription or using medication to get high?
This is the difference between stimulants and opioids.
What is stimulants increase energy while opioids reduce pain and slow the body down?
Explain tolerance, dependence, addiction, and withdrawal.
What is: tolerance = needing more, dependence = body needs it, addiction = cannot stop using, withdrawal = symptoms when stopping?