For the 7 questions below go to the website link below labeled 'Tobacco Addiction':
“Is nicotine the only harmful part of tobacco?” (clock on the question)
1. How much nicotine is absorbed in the lungs per cigarette?
2. What are three diseases caused by tar in cigarettes:
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b.
c.
3. Which cigarette toxin puts you at greater risk for heart disease?
“How does tobacco deliver its effects?”(click on the question)
4. What is the first body system to be affected by nicotine?
5. How long does it take for nicotine to affect the brain?
6. List three negative ways nicotine affects your body:
a.
b.
c.
Click on “What happens when someone uses tobacco for long periods of time?” (click on the question)
7. Explain how nicotine tolerance develops
8. List five withdrawal symptoms from quitting smoking:
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
9. Explain nicotine craving:
For the remaining questions below go to the link named 'Smoking Facts'
Click on “Teen smoking Facts.”
10. When does almost all first use occur?
11. What percentage of high school smokers were still smoking 7 to 9 years later?
12. What significant health problems do kids who smoke have?
Go back and click on “Seldom Known History in Smoking.”
13. What was the penalty for smoking in Turkey, China and Russia in the 1600s?
14. When was a link between smoking and disease first reported?
15. Read the last fact on this page. What do you think was the effect of giving soldiers
cigarettes in their rations?
Go back and click on “Pregnancy Smoking Facts.”
16. What can smoking more than half a pack a day cause in women?
17. What does smoking while pregnant increase the chances of?
Go back and click on “Second Hand Smoking Facts?”
18. What does secondhand smoke cause?
19. How does secondhand smoke affect asthma?
Go back and click on “Real Quotes from Tobacco Companies?”
20. What does the 1974 RJR memo mean?
21. Why did the 1972 Philip Morris researcher make that statement?
22. What have the tobacco companies known they are in the business of since 1963?