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