Health Effects of Cigarette Smoking
chewing, snuff, dip
Forms of smokeless tobacco:
A plant whose leaves are smoked, chewed or sniffed
Tobacco
half
10 years after you quit smoking, your risk for lung cancer drops by.....
stroke
Blood clots in the brain can lead to __________
480,000
Cigarette smoking causes more than _________________ deaths each year in the US
3,200
Each day, more than _________ people under age 18 smoke their first cigarette
cigarettes, cigars, pipes & pens
Electronic Cigarettes are made to look like:
5 years
If you quit smoking, your risks for cancers of the mouth, throat, esophagus and bladder drop by half within....
Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)
Infants and children exposed to secondhand smoke are at risk for:
emphysema & chronic bronchitis
Respiratory diseases include:
28
Smokeless tobacco contains _______ cancer causing agents
reduce fertility & increase risks for birth defects
Smoking can affect men's sperm, which can ..........
almost anywhere in your body
Smoking can cause cancer.......
harder
Smoking can make it ______________ for a woman to become pregnant.
90%
Smoking causes about _________ of all lung cancer deaths
7000
Tobacco smoke contains more than ____________ chemicals
thicken, grow narrower
Smoking damages blood vessels and can make them __________ and ________________________
Kentucky & North Carolina
The largest tobacco-producing states are:
No way of knowing: if they are safe, what chemicals they contain, how much nicotine you are inhaling.
The main reasons for not using E-Cigarettes
8.6 million
____________ people live with a serious illness caused by smoking