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Tobacco Vocabulary
These are terms for 7th grade health
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Addiction | A mental or physical need for a drug or other substance. |
| Tar | A thick, dark, liquid that forms when tobacco burns. |
| Withdrawal | The unpleasant symptoms that someone experiences when he or she stops using an addictive substance. |
| Alveoli | The tiny air sacs in your lungs. |
| Emphysema | a disease that results in the destruction of alveoli in the lungs. |
| Psychological dependence | A person's belief that he or she needs a drug to feel good or function normally. |
| Physical dependence | An addiction in which the body develops a chemical need for a drug. |
| Tolerance | The body's need for larger and larger amounts of a drug to produce the same effect. |
| Secondhand Smoke | Air that has been contaminated by tobacco smoke. |
| Passive Smokers | Nonsmokers who breathe in secondhand smoke. |