Download Tobacco Study Guide Answer Key

Tobacco Study Guide Answer Key
1. What is the primary danger of being around people who are smoking and what can it cause?
Inhaling second hand smoke—inhaling second hand smoke can cause lung cancer, lung disease and
heart disease. It can also cause asthma and respiratory problems.
2. What does it mean to advocate for your health?
Standing up for yourself and speaking out to protect your health.
a. List how you can advocate respectfully and effectively.
a.
Use a calm tone
b.
Say please
c.
Have empathy and be sensitive about their addiction
d.
Let them know your feelings
e.
Talk to them in private
3. How can living with a smoker affect your health physically?
Inhaling secondhand smoke impacts you the same as the smoker and can lead to
multiple types of cancer and respiratory issues
4. Explain why you may be more likely to smoke if your family and/or friends smoke.
When you grow up around smokers and it seems to be a normal acceptable thing in your
family/with your friends, you may have the opinion that smoking isn’t a bad thing, which would
make it not a huge deal if you tried it. You may also want to be like your parents, grandparents,
and/or older siblings so you try it. Your curiosity may also be heightened since people you are
around often all smoke.
5. Explain how media that depicts people smoking can influence kids to smoke.
Kids may see characters they look up to using tobacco and want to be like them so they try using
tobacco. The characters that use tobacco may appear to be villains, or viewed as trouble makers,
which might be a desirable lifestyle to some kids, so they use tobacco like the characters to be like
them. Kids may also just simply be curious after seeing it in a movie and want to try it. If a kid
idolizes a character as a role model, would use the tobacco to be like the character.
6. How does using tobacco affect the 3 parts of health: POSSIBLE ANSWERS MAY BE:
Physical Health
1. Cancers—mouth, throat, larynx,
tongue, lung,
Mental/ Emotional Health
1. Causes feelings such as
shame, guilt, depression
2.Disease—gum, heart
2. Cause an internal struggle
knowing tobacco is killing
you, however the addiction is
too overpowering.
Social
1. Lose friends who do not want to be
associated with smoking.
2. Not as social due to the negative
effects of tobacco use like tooth loss, bad
breath, mouth sores, stinky hair/skin,
yellow teeth
7. List 5 long term effects (effects that happen over a long period of time) of tobacco use.
POSSIBLE ANSWERS MAY BE:
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Lung Cancer
Heart Disease
Mouth, throat, larynx cancers
Pancreas cancer
Stroke
8. List 5 short term effects (effects that happen immediately) of tobacco use.
POSSIBLE ANSWERS MAY BE:
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Coughing
Shortness of breath
Stinky clothes, hair, breath, skin
Dizziness
Lightheadedness
9. How would being diagnosed with mouth cancer and having your lower jaw removed effect your
health in each part of health? Possible answers may include:
Physical Health
1. Pain
2. Interfere with eating food
Mental/ Emotional Health
1. Depressed about how you look
2. Sad and ashamed because of
what you’ve done to your body.
Social
1. You wouldn’t want to go out
with your friends because you’d
be embarrassed of what you look
like.
3. Deformed looking
3. Disappointed for letting your
family down
2.You would stop attending any
social activities bc you’d have a lot
of time to recover from surgery
and wouldn’t want to go
3. Your family may be
embarrassed about the way you
look and might not want you
around in public.
10. List 2 resources you can use to seek treatment and support for your addiction.
 Northern Kentucky Health Department
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Center for Disease Control website
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Multiple online sites to help quit
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Counseling/therapy