Nicotine Flashcards
Nicotine is a…
Stimulant
What is the main addictive ingredient?
Nicotine - not any cancerous products
Cigarette’s harmful effect is produced by
carbon monoxide and tar
vape =
flavouring/oil
Two types of users?
active and passive
What is an active user?
The nicotine user
What is a passive user
non-user, second hand smoke around users
ETS
environmental tobacco smoke
Ways a person can use nicotine
- consume orally (chew)
- inhaling (vape, cigar, cigarettes)
- snorting (snuff)
Nicotine increases…
Heart rate and blood pressure
Nicotine decreases…
growth hormone secretion and muscle tone
What are some health consequences?
- tumors
- cancer
- emphysema
- cardiovascular
- other (smokers skin, burgers disease)
benign
non cancerous
malignant
cancerous
Cancer can happen where
mouth, bladder, breast, blood, skin, lungs, etc. (can happen in heart but extremely rare)
Emphysema
- destruction of the alveoli of the lungs
- large production of phlegm
biopsy
test to see if tumor is cancerous
Cell cleaners
Pinocyte and phagocytes
Pinocyte
cell drinkers
Phagocyte
cell eaters
Leukoplakia
pre-cancerous white patches inside the mouth
Ways nicotine can affect infants
- Increases mortality rate
- Increases miscarriages
- SIDS
- Increases birth defects
- ADD/ADHD
- increases the risk of cancer later in life
red blood cells
oxygen
how much air do we inhale per breath
a pint
how much our skin weigh
6 pounds
treatment for cancer
- chemo
- radiation
- surgery
SIDS
sudden infant death syndrome
tony gwen
died by chewing
nicotine constricts
true
