chapter 15

Question 1

substance/agent known to cause cancer

Answer 1

carcinogen

Question 2

measure of the overall burden of a disease that captures the # of years of life afflicted by poor health or disability, or lost to premature death.

Answer 2

disability-adjusted life years

Question 3

handheld battery-powered vaporizer that simulates smoking & provides some of the behavioral aspects of smoking, including the hand-to-mouth action of smoking, but w/o burning tobacco.

Answer 3

e-cigarettes

Question 4

cigarette flavored with the compound menthol

Answer 4

menthol cigarettes

Question 5

smoke inhaled involuntarily from tobacco being smoked by others.

Answer 5

second-hand smoke