Mapeh 8 4th quarter

• Gateway drugs - these are legal drugs such as cigarettes and alcohol.
• Smoking - a practice in which a substance is burned and the resulting smoke is breathed in to be tasted.
• Tobbaco - a tall, leafy plant, originally grown in South and Central America.
• Cigarette - a thin cylinder of finely-cut tobbaco rolled in paper for smoking
• Highblood pressure - too much exertion of blood against the arteries.
• Heart disease - involves the cardiovascular system.
• Body odor - effect of cigarette smoke to your body scent.
• Bad breath - foul smell exhaled from the mouth
• Bronchitis - inflammation of the airways from the trachea to the lungs
• Emphysema - damaged air sacs in the lungs
• Pneumonia - infection of the lungs
• Asthma - a chronic disease which affects the airways
• Cancer - a group of disease which makes body cells grow uncontrollably
• Mainstream smoke - refers specially to the smoke that a smoker directly inhales
• Sidestream smoke - smoke that comes out of the lightened end of a cigarette or pipe.
• Sidestream smoke is also called?

  • Second-hand smoke (SHS)
  • Environmental tobbaco smoke (ETS)
• Third-hand smoke - smoke left for a long time on sofa, beddings, pillow and other objects. Still contains harmful chemicals and carcinogens.
• Third-hand smoke is also called?

  • Residual tobbaco smoke (RTS)
• Carcinogens - ability that can cause cancer.
• There are over 4000 chemicals inside a cigarette and 60 of them are carcinogenic.