Smoking and Your Health

Question 1

There are over _____ chemicals in one puff of a cigarette

Answer 1

4,000

Question 2

Tar-

Answer 2

dark sticky substance, that damages cilia and can cause cancer

Question 3

Carbon Monoxide (CO)-

Answer 3

Colorless and odorless, cuts off oxygen and makes you breathe faster

Question 4

Nicotine-

Answer 4

dangerous chemical and highly addictive- craving

Question 5

In Rapid City, it’s $9 for a pack of cigarettes, so…
Two packs a day in 50 years…

Answer 5

in a year if you smoke one pack a day it costs $3,285, in 50 years $164,250
$328,500

Question 6

Chronic Bronchitis

Answer 6

Bronchi tubes are irritated and too much mucus is produced (narrow passageways)
Lasts a long time
Coughing occurs a lot
Long-term bronchitis is 5-10 times more common in smokers

Question 7

Emphysema

Answer 7

A disease in which the alveoli in the lungs are enlarged and then pop
Causes shortness of breath

Question 8

Lung Cancer

Answer 8

The third leading cause of death in men and women in the US
About 140,000 people in the US die from cancer caused by smoking in one year
Inhaling cigarette smoke is the most significant contributing factor if lung cancer
80% chance of a smoker getting lung cancer

Question 9

Circulatory System Problems

Answer 9

Smokers are twice as likely to have a heart attack
Every cigarette does irreversible damage to the heart