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6th Grade “Tobacco Quest”:
Name: _____________________________________ Period: _____________________
Directions: Circle either True or False based on whether you feel the statement is correct or incorrect.
True or False 1. Nicotine slows your heart rate.
True or False 2. Smokeless tobacco is just as addictive as cigarettes.
True or False 3. Teens can develop a physical dependence for nicotine much less easily than adults can,
because their bodies are not fully developed.
True or False 4. Rather than calming you down, smoking actually stimulates you.
True or False 5. Snuff is a form of smokeless tobacco made from cured, ground tobacco leaves.
True or False 6. Common forms of tobacco include: cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, snuff and marijuana.
True or False 7. Nicotine, the drug found in tobacco is not addictive.
True or False 8. The four major diseases associated with smoking are: lung disease, heart disease,
emphysema and AIDS.
True or False 9. Nicotine is a stimulant drug.
True or False 10. Most Americans do not use tobacco.
True or False 11. The #1 preventable cause of death in America is cigarette smoking.
True or False 12. Sidestream smoke contains twice as much tar and nicotine as does mainstream smoke.
True or False 13. Smoking makes it harder to breathe normally.
True or False 14. Alveoli are the tiny air sacs in the lungs.
True or False 15. Secondhand smoke does not lead to any health problems.
True or False 16. Secondhand smoke comes only from the person exhaling smoke.
True or False 17. Emphysema is a disease that results in the destruction of the alveoli in the lungs
True or False 18. Once you are addicted to nicotine it is easy to quit.
True or False 19. When you smoke, you can damage your respiratory system.
True or False 20. One puff of a cigarette contains over 1.5 million harmful chemicals
Directions: For questions 21-35 select the best possible answer from the choices given by writing the letter
associated with that answer in the space provided.
21.____ The lungs exchange which two gases:
a. Carbon monoxide and oxygen
c. Carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide
b. Carbon dioxide and oxygen
d. The lungs to not exchange gases.
22.____ Smoking can cause cancer of:
a. mouth
b. throat
d. kidneys
e. bladder
c. lung
f. all of the answers are correct
23.____ What is the name of a gummy substance formed when the particles in cigarette smoke stick
together?
a. Secondhand smoke
b. Crack
c. Lung cancer
d. Tar
24.____ What is the substance in cigarettes that is addictive?
a. Tar
b. Nicotine
c. Alcohol
d. Filters
25.____ ____________ are forms of smokeless tobacco.
a. snuff and chew
b. chips and dip
c. cigarettes
d. cigars
26.____ What is the name of a gummy substance formed when the particles in cigarette smoke stick
together?
a. Secondhand smoke
b. Crack
c. Lung cancer
d. Tar
27.____ ____________ is an addiction in which the body develops a chemical need for a drug.
a. Mental addiction
b. Physical attraction
c. Physical dependence
d. Mental description
28.____ ____________ is the body’s need for larger and larger amounts of the drug to produce the same
effect.
a. tolerance
b. acceptance
c. hunger
d. daily allowance
29.____ ____________ is the air that has been contaminated by tobacco smoke.
a. Firsthand smoke
b. Secondhand smoke
c. Mainstream smoke
d. Sidestream smoke
30.____ ____________ is the smoke that comes from the burning end of a cigarette, pipe or cigar.
a. Firsthand smoke
b. Secondhand smoke
c. Mainstream smoke
d. Sidestream smoke
31.____ ____________ is the smoke that has been inhaled and exhaled by a smoker.
a. Firsthand smoke
b. Secondhand smoke
c. Mainstream smoke
d. Sidestream smoke
32.____ Cold turkey is:
a. food leftover from Thanksgiving.
c. a delicious option at Pizza Hut.
b. to stop using tobacco products immediately.
d. to stop using tobacco products with help.
33.____ More than ________________ people die in the US each year from smoking related illnesses.
a. 400
b. 400,000
c. 1.5 million
d. 4 million
34.____ Flavored cigarettes contain ____________ chemicals than regular cigarettes.
a. more
b. less than
c. the same amount of
d. five times as many
35.____ The STOP method for refusal is: are forms of smokeless tobacco.
a. Say no in a firm voice, Talk to much, Open up, Promptly leave
b. Say no in a firm voice, Talk to your parents, Open up, Punch a pillow if you are angry
c. Say no in a firm voice, Tell why not, Offer another type of drug, Promptly leave
d. Say no in a firm voice, Tell why not, Offer another idea, Promptly leave
36.____ ___________ smoke contains up to 90 times more of the cancer causing chemicals found in
cigarette smoke.
a. Cigar
b. Crack
c. Snuff
d. Pipe
37.____ Smoking is the leading cause of ____________________.
a. tooth decay
b. teenage drinking
c. coronary heart disease
d. AIDS
38.____ ____________ are forms of tobacco.
a. marijuana and cigarettes
c. cigarettes and snuff
b. chew and cocaine
d. cigars and alcohol
39.____ The bronchi are _______________ that lead(s) from the trachea to the lungs.
a. two passageways
b. a single passageway
c. part of your mouth
d. filters
40.____ The _____________ includes the organs that supply your blood with oxygen. It includes the
trachea, epiglottis, bronchi, lungs and diaphragm.
a. circulatory system
b. health system
c. oxygen system
d. respiratory system