Exam 10: Nicotine and Tobacco Use

Surprisingly, cigarette smoking reduces the risk of bladder cancer.

Chewing tobacco began in Canada in or around 1850.

Among the gases of tobacco smoke, the most toxic is __________.

Discuss three positive consequences to you if you were to stop smoking (assuming that you are smoking now).

Snuff is __________.

Lung cancer has surpassed __________ as the leading cause of cancer deaths among women.

According to the World Health Organization, an estimated 5.4 million people worldwide die each year from tobacco-related diseases.

Smoking two packs of cigarettes a day for 20 years reduces one's lifespan by __________.

A few drops of pure nicotine on the tongue can kill an adult.

Nicotine stimulates _______ receptors in the CNS.

With the exception of a rare genetic defect, the only established cause of clinically significant COPD is cigarette smoking.

In 2000, warnings on tobacco products were changed to __________.

The primary negative factor in early marketing of cigarette smoking was that __________.

Another name for mainstream smoke is environmental tobacco smoke.

The quantity of tar in a cigarette varies from levels of 12 to 16 mg per cigarette to less than 6 mg.

It is estimated that as many as 42 000 additional lives in Canada would be saved each year if ___ percent of smokers were advised by a health care professional to quit and were offered medication or assistance to do so, but presently only ___ percent of smokers receive such services.

In a study of people who smoked and were also in drug-abuse treatment, one in three people indicated that __________.

Research from the United States shows that although only ___ percent of smokers develop COPD, _____ percent of all COPD cases are the result of smoking.

About 60 milligrams of nicotine __________.

Women smokers using birth control pills have a much greater risk of dying from a stroke than do women smokers who do not use birth control pills.