Smoking Flashcards
What are the top killers in the Ph?
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs)
Of the total deaths in ___, __ percent are due to the “___”
2008, 58%, fatal four
What are the fatal four?
cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, chronic respiratory disease.
Why is smoking harmful?
Almost every organ in the body is damaged when a person smokes, it weakens the body and leads to many diseases, around five million die yearly from tobacco, wherein one individual dies every eight seconds.
The main health risks from smoking are ___,___, and ____.
Lung cancer, heart disease, and stroke.
Smoking causes almost __ percent of deaths from lung cancer, around __ percent of deaths from COPD, and __ percent of deaths from heart disease.
90%, 80%, 17%
Smoking does not affect other parts of the body. True or False?
false
What is Lung cancer?
Is the most common form of cancer caused by smoking, more than 80% of cases of lung cancer are due to smoking.
Cigarette smoke contains many ___ that interfere with the body’s method of ___ air and ___ out the lungs.
chemicals, filtering and cleaning
What is Tobacco smoke? What are the cancer-causing chemicals called?
is made up of thousands of chemicals, including at least 70 known to cause cancer, these cancer-causing
chemicals are referred to as carcinogens.
What is Nicotine?
The addictive drug that produces the effect people are looking for and one of the harshest chemicals in tobacco smoke.
What is Formaldehyde?
is a colorless, strong-smelling gas used in making building materials and many household products.
What is Lead?
is a naturally occurring bluish-gray metal found in small amounts in the earth’s crust
What is Carbon Monoxide?
is a colorless, odorless, and tasteless gas that is slightly less dense than air.
What are the toxic chemicals found in a Tobacco Cigarette?
Acetone, Butane, Benzene, Arsenic, Formaldehyde, Carbon Monoxide, Cadmium
