Lecture 6 Flashcards
Who introduced the Western world to tobacco?
Sir Walter Raleigh
What did Christopher Columbus and Pedro Alvarez Cabral called tobacco?
The holy herb
What did tobacco used to cure?
Toothache, gingivitis, caries
- bites of poisonous reptiles and insects
- hysteria
- pain
- neuralgia
- laryngeal spasm
- gout
- respiratory stimulant
Medical uses of tobacco (1967)
What was tabacco administered by rectum for?
Constipation & Haemorrhoidal bleed
What disease was tabacco used to improve muscle movement?
Parkinson’s disease
What is the current population of current smokers in US?
27%
Percentage of teenage smokers in US?
25%
True or False: Most of those kille by tobacco are not particularly heavy smokers
True
When do most people start smoking?
As teenagers
How many years earlier do smokers die?
14 years
What are the chances that you will die of smoking if you smoke past the age of 35?
1 in 2
How many diseases does smoking cause?
About 40
What percent of death in females in smoking related?
8%
What percent of death in males is smoking related?
19%
How is TB transmitted?
Saliva
Germ theory & TB
They thought that chewing tabacco spead TB, so that is where smoking came in to play
Higher rates of smoking are in
lower socio-economic groups
Smoking, especially current smoking, is a crucial and
extremely modifiable independent determinant of
Stroke
Class A carcinogen and contains approximately 4,000 chemicals
Second-hand smoke
- can cause middle ear effusion
- increases the risk of croup, pneumonia and bronchiolitis by 60 percent in the first 18 months of life
- increases the frequency and severity of asthma episodes
- is a risk factor for induction of asthma in asymptomatic children
Exposure of children to second-hand smoke
When did the surgeon general release that smoking is bad?
After the stock market closed at 7 pm
Prolonged and heavy smoking disease reduces _____, and masks clinical inflammation
BOP
What does smokers have greater loss of?
Alveolar bone & independent plaque levels
Prevalence of ____ ______ defects twice as much in smokers
Molar furcation