Tobacco Smoking Flashcards
Major preventable cause of premature death and disease worldwide
Tobacco smoking
Tobacco smoking kills more than __ million each year
80
How many percent of 1.1 billion smokers live in low and middle income countries
80%
A powerful addictive drug which reaches your brain in seconds
Nicotine
Colorless poisonous gas
Carbon monoxide
Brown substance that forms when tobacco cools and thickens
Tar
Consuming tobacco products directly
First hand
Smoke than comes from the burning end of cigarette
Secondhand
Invisible tobacco dust that settles in environment
Thirdhand
Revenue from tobacco taxes is about __ billion annually
23
Smoking causes __ or __ out of __ of all deaths from COPD
80, 8, 10
Smokers are __ to __ times more likely to die from COPD
12, 13
In 2013 __ out of __ are current smokers
1, 4
How much does men smoke everyday? Women?
11.3, 7
Average initiation age of smoking among men? Women?
17.4, 19.1