Exam 10: Tobacco

Which event is credited for initiating the cigarette habit throughout Europe?

In 2007, Health Canada approved a nicotine partial agonist drug as a smoking treatment. What was the drug?

Although there are concerns about smoking during pregnancy, research studies have not consistently demonstrated any specific risks.

Which of the following does NOT describe nicotine?

What substance in cigarettes was targeted and in which decade in order to provide a safer cigarette?

Smoking water pipes is safer because the water will filter toxic chemicals.

Chronic smokers have lower levels of MAO; essential to which of the following?

The per capita sales of cigarettes in Canada started to decrease in 1990.

If current rates of tobacco use continue, approximately 1 million Canadians will die over the next 20 years as a direct result of smoking and second-hand smoke.

The Tobacco Restraint Act (1908) in Canada banned the sale of cigarettes to anyone younger than what age?

Young Canadians are smoking fewer cigarettes, but what are they turning to instead?

Choose one of the Key Canadian Historical Facts Related to Tobacco and explain why you think it is interesting.

A 1952 article called "Cancer by the Carton" drew public attention to the harmless effects of tobacco use and led to a temporary decline in cigarette sales. Who published it?

Smokers have more miscarriages than nonsmokers.

Identify and provide an overview of Canada has three major tobacco companies, and where the tobacco is grown.

Describe the death rates from cancer of the lung and bronchus in nonsmokers and smokers of various numbers of cigarettes.

What years have been referred to as the golden decades for cigarette consumption in Canada?

Gum, patches, lozenges, and inhalers are all various forms of which of the following?

Describe the effects of cigarette smoking on a developing fetus and a newborn.

Some early tobacco control efforts focused on women, associating tobacco use with immoral behaviour.