SmokingWebquest

Go to and find the answers to the following:

Who Smokes?

  • Each day more than ______people under the age of ______smoke their first cigarette, and approximately ______youth and young adults become daily smokers.
  • _____ out of _____ smokers start before what age? ______. What % start smoking by 26? _____
  • What percentage of high schoolers smoke cigarettes? ______
  • In 2011, nearly 18% of high school boys were current ______users
  • Given all this, the proportion of adult smokes has actually decline since 1964 from ______% to ______%

Why is smoking harmful to smokers?

Respiratory Health

  • _____ out of _____ lung cancers are caused by smoking

COPD, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, is a group of lung diseases that block airflow and make it difficult to breathe.

  • Nearly _____ out of _____ COPD deaths are a result of smoking. Currently, there is no ______for COPD.
  • Smoking increases a person’s risk of getting ______and dying from it
  • More than 11% of high school students in the United States has ______, and teens who smoke are more likely to develop it.

Cancer

  • Smoking causes lung cancer; as well as many other types of cancer. List the other 11 types of cancer than smoking can contribute to: ______

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Children

  • How many million children alive today will ultimately die early from smoking? ______
  • This is equal to _____ child out of every ______alive in the U.S.
  • Using this same ratio and the typical health class size of 30 students… how many students in this class would die early as a result of smoking? ______(decimals okay!)

Why is smoking harmful to others?

  • How many nonsmoking Americans are exposed to secondhand smoke? ______.
  • What percentage of these people are children? ______
  • Babies who breathe secondhand smoke are sick more often with what 3 illnesses? ______

Go to,andfind the answers for the following:

  • Tobacco use is the ______cause of preventable death in the United States and around the world
  • Tobacco killed ______people worldwide in the 20th century, and if current trends continue, it would kill ______people in the 21st century.

What are the 4 proven, cost-effective strategies that researchers have come up with to prevent kids from smoking, help smokers quit, and to protect others from secondhand smoke?

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Tobacco kills how many people per year in the United States? ______. This number is more than what other 6 causes of death combined? ______

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How many of these deaths are the result of second-hand smoke exposure? ______

Go to and complete the following chart:Within 20 minutes after you smoke that last cigarette, your body begins a series of changes that continue for years

Minutes / Effects on the body
20 minutes after quitting
12 hours after quitting
2 weeks – 3 months after quitting
1 – 9 months after quitting
1 year after quitting
5 years after quitting
10 years after quitting
15 years after quitting