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tobacco/alcohol 6th
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| tobacco | a plant with leaves that can be dried and mixed with chemicals to make products such as cigarettes and cigars |
| alcohol | a liquid that can affect the way people think and act when they drink it |
| these cause reactions to alcohol | body weight, food in stomach |
| nicotine | an addictive drug found in all tobacco products |
| carbon monoxide | a dangerous gas found in cigarette smoke |
| tar | black, sticky substance that coats the lungs |
| early effects of cigarettes | hair and clothes smell bad, bad breath, dulled taste buds, yellow teeth, wrinkled skin |
| environmental tobacco smoke | secondhand smoke, mixture of exhaled smoke and smoke from the ends of lit cigarettes |
| smokeless tobacco | chewing tobacco, snuff, spit tobacco |
| emphysema | a disease in which the lungs get so damaged that they cannot absorb enough oxygen |
| cancer | a disease in which groups of cells grow uncontrollably and destroy healthy body tissues |
| intoxication | the state of being affected by alcohol |
| blood alcohol concentration | BAC, percentage of alcohol in a person's blood |
| cirrhosis | a disease that causes the liver to stop working properly |
| ulcers | open sores |
| fetal alcohol syndrome | group of birth defects that can occur when an unborn baby is exposed to alcohol |
| tolerance | the body's ability to resist the effects of a drug, causes the person to need more of a drug to feel the effects |
| drug addiction | person who can not control their use of a drug |
| alcoholism | a disease caused by physical and psychological dependence to alcohol |
| peer pressure | influence from a friend or group of friends |