Tobacco

Question 1

What 3diseass/cancers are smokers at risk for?

Answer 1

Heart Disease, Lung Cancer

and Lung Disease

Question 2

What percent of lung cancers are directly related to smoking?

Answer 2

90%

Question 3

What is the chronic disease where alveoli burst?

Answer 3

Emphysema

Question 4

Smoking causes approximately how many premature deaths each year?

Answer 4

400,000

Question 5

Filtered cigarettes remove _____% of tar and nicotine.

Answer 5

10%

Question 6

Smokeless tobacco has ____ times the amount of nicotine than a cigarette.

Answer 6

3 times

Question 7

Medically speaking, the most harmful byproduct is____?

Answer 7

Tar

Question 8

The amount of oxygen is reduced I the bloodstream by inhaling _______?

Answer 8

Carbon Monoxide

Question 9

Lung Cancer is very rarely found among_________.

Answer 9

Non-smokers

Question 10

Which type of cigarettes have flavor?

Answer 10

Menthol

Question 11

Which by-product kills cillia?

Answer 11

Tar

Question 12

What is a name for cancer causing agents/chemicals

Answer 12

Carcinogens

Question 13

A respiratory disorder that causes mucus to line the bronchi is?

Answer 13

Chronic Bronchitis

Question 14

The active ingredient in Tobacco is?

Answer 14

Nicotine

Question 15

Tobacco belongs to what drug classification?

Answer 15

Stimulants

Question 16

A small amount of smokeless tobacco is called?

Answer 16

Quid

Question 17

A term for a disease that interferes with breathing is called?

Answer 17

COPD and/or cold

Question 18

Abnormal cells in the mouth that are pre-cancerous and appear whitish/grayish are called?

Answer 18

Leukoplakia

Question 19

What is the smoke called that goes directly into the smokers lungs?

Answer 19

Mainstream

Question 20

What is the smoke called that comes off the burning end of a cigarette?

Answer 20

Sidestream

Question 21

What two types of smoke make up environmental smoke?

Answer 21

Exhaled Mainstream and sidestream

Question 22

What are the two terms used to describe breathing in secondhand smoke?

Answer 22

Involuntary and passive

Question 23

A deadly gas that replaces the oxygen in the blood when someone inhales a cigarette is?

Answer 23

Carbon Monoxide

Question 24

Smokers develop chronic bronchitis on an average of __years after they start?

Answer 24

10

Question 25

People with Emphysema breath about __x’s per minute?

Answer 25

30

Question 26

The most common form of cancer linked with smoking is?

Answer 26

Lung

Question 27

What enhances the cholesterol in the arteries every time someone inhales?

Answer 27

Nicotine

Question 28

Tobacco use is the _____ most preventable cause of death in the US.

Answer 28

Single

Question 29

Tobacco companies can no longer advertise on all of the following except?

Answer 29

Billboards

Question 30

What by-product attaches to red blood cells?

Answer 30

Carbon Monoxide