tobacco/alcohol 6th Word Scramble
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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 |
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