Smoking/Tobacco/Nicotine Flashcards
Tobacco is a carrier for the highly addictive drug …
nicotine
Once your body gets a taste for nicotine, it can quickly become a lifelong addiction, with extremely fatal…
consequences
_______ is the main drug in all forms of tobacco. __________ is one of the most heavily used and most addictive drugs in the U.S.
Nicotine, Nicotine
Nicotine can be…
smoked, vaped or chewed.
The nicotine gets you hooked, but it’s the other chemicals in tobacco like…
carbon monoxide, tar, formaldehyde, cyanide and ammonia
___________ ________ is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States.1
Cigarette smoking
Cigarette smoking causes more than __________ deaths each year in the United States.
480,000
Smoking causes about ____ of all lung cancer deaths.
90%
More women die from ________ cancer each year than from breast cancer.
lung
Remember, the bodies ability to carry and utilize oxygen is ….
decreased in smokers.
Cigarettes:
Cigarettes: smokes, cigs or butts. (Smokeless tobacco) chew, dip, spit tobacco or snuff
________ is the main drug in all forms of tobacco. __________is one of the most heavily used and most addictive drugs in the U.S.
Nicotine, Nicotine
A stroke occurs when:
A clot blocks the blood flow to part of your brain;
A blood vessel in or around your brain bursts.