Health (2) - Smoking
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- what type of drug is nicotine?
- stimulant
- nicotine triggers the release of...
- stress hormones
- nicotine increases what?
- heart rate and blood pressure
- nicotine does what to your tastebuds?
- dulls them
- how many chemicals are in cigarette smoke?
- 4000
- if a person smokes ___ cigarates a day they can add ____ lbs of tar to their lungs each year
-
20-60 cigs a day
1/4-1/2 lbs - common additives in cigs?
- flavor, ammonia, moisture, etc
- 2 effects of tar
-
1.makes mucas thick
2.slows sweeping action of cilia - how can smoking soothe the urge to cough?
- paralyzes cilia, numbs throat
- a person with emphaysema breaths __ times a minute. this is ___ times the rate of a healthy adult
-
30 times a minute
1/2 to 2 times more - a person with emphysema will die from..
- suffocation or heart failure
- COLD stands for
- chronic obstructive lung diseases
- how many deaths in the US come from heart disease and stroke?
- 57,000
- smoking does what to the oxygen in your blood?
- decreases the amount of oxygen that the blood can carry
- what happens to the red blood cells of a smoker?
- CO2 replaces O2
- nicotine triggers the formation of...
- blood clots
- what does smoking do to the hearts blood flow?
- drastically reduces blood flow to the hearts own arteries
- chewing tabacco causes tumors to form in..
- nasal cavity, cheeck, gum, and throat
- 2 effects of chewing tobacco
-
1.wears away tooth surface
2.eats away at jawbones - smoking increases risk of ulcers
- True
- smoking does not effect fertitlity in women
- false
- smoking causes increased bone loss in women
- true
- smoking has no effect on memory
- false
- women who smoke while using birth control pill are at a greater risk for heart attack or stroke
- true
- smoking increases persons tolerance to drugs
- True
- smoking slows the growth of lungs in adolescents
- true
- the immune system is not effected by smoking
- false
- smoking causes men to produce abnormal sperm
- true
- smoking can increase hearing or vision loss
- true
- low nicotine or low tar cigs are better for a person
- false
- cigar and pipe smoke have a low risk of causing cancer
- false
- nicotine
- an addictive drug present in tobacco
- tar
- chemical present in tobacco, burning releases carcinogens
- carinogens
- cancer-causing agents
- mainstream smoke
- smoke that flows through cig and into a smokers lungs when they inhale
- sidestream smoke
- smoke that escapes into the air from buring tobacco
- second hand/passive smoking
- smoke exhaled from smokers lungs and smoke in the air that other people breathe in
- withdrawl
- irritablity, restlessness, anxiety, craving for nicotine