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Science: Chapter 16-5
How does tobacco affect the body?
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6th Grade
12/16/2007

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Term
What is a stimulant found in tobacco?
Definition
nicotine
Term
What are some harmful substances found in tobacco?
Definition

1) arsenic

2) carbon monoxide

3) formaldehyde

4) nicotine

Term
Why is nicotine bad for you?
Definition
it causes physical and mental addiction
Term

What does smoking do to

cilia in the lungs?

Definition

it causes the cilia to stop working

1) so mucus collects and blocks air tubes

2) then alveoli break

3) then you get less oxygen

4) then less carbon dioxide is released

and you have a

harder time breathing

Term

Why are smokers

more likely to get sick?

 

Definition
dirt and bacteria stay trapped in lungs because cilia stop working
Term

What are some diseases

smokers are likely to get?

Definition

1) heart disease

2) cancer

3) lung disease - emphysema

4) high blood pressure

Term
What is emphysema?
Definition

lung disease

1) air sacs (alveoli) are destroyed

2) less oxygen/CO2 exchanged

 

Term

How does nicotine

cause high blood pressure?

Definition

it makes the blood vessels narrow

so the heart has to work harder

to pump the blood

through smaller openings

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What is secondhand smoke?
Definition

the smoke from

a burning tobacco product

(from someone else smoking)

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