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Tobacco Vocabulary
These are terms for 7th grade health
Question | Answer |
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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. |