Gr. 7 Tobacco Terms
1.Nicotine – An addictive or habit forming drug found in tobacco.
2.Tar – A thick dark liquid that forms when tobacco burns. Tar coats the airways and linings of the lungs.
3.Carbon Monoxide – A colorless, odorless, poisonous gas produced when tobacco burns.
4.Alveoli – Tiny air sacs in the lungs which become damaged due to tobacco smoke.
5.Emphysema – A disease that results in the destruction of the alveoli in the lungs, it can cause death.
6.Respiratory system – Includes the organs that supply your blood with oxygen, blood carries oxygen to
your whole body
7.Trachea – Is a passageway in your throat that takes air into and out of your lungs, also called the
windpipe.
8.Epiglottis – Is a flap of tissue in the back of your mouth that keeps food out of your trachea. It covers
the trachea when you eat and uncovers when you breathe.
9.Bronchi – Two passageways that branch from the trachea to each lung
10.Lungs – Two large organs that exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide
11.Diaphragm – A large dome shaped muscle below the lungs that expands and compresses the lungs,
enables breathing.
12.Addiction – A mental or physical need for a drug or other substance.
13.Withdrawal – Is the unpleasant symptoms that someone experiences when he or she stops using an
addictive substance.
14.Psychological dependence – A person’s belief that he or she needs a drug to feel good or function
normally.
15.Physical dependence – Is an addiction in which the body develops a chemical need for a drug.
16.Tolerance – The body’s need for larger and larger amounts of a drug to produce the same effect.
17.Target audience – A group of people for which a product is intended.
18.Product placement – When a company pays to show its products in media being used by celebrities.
19.Media literacy – The ability to understand the goals of advertising and the media.
20.Secondhand smoke – Air that has been contaminated by tobacco smoke.
21.Passive smokers – Are nonsmokers who breathe in secondhand smoke.
22.Mainstream smoke – The smoke that is inhaled and then exhaled by a smoker.
23.Sidestream smoke – Smoke that comes from the burning end of a cigarette, pipe, or cigar. It is
dangerous and contains twice as much tar and nicotine as does mainstream smoke.
24.Cold turkey – Stopping all use of tobacco products immediately