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The Smoke Screen Challenge!

Test your knowledge with these 14 smoking-related questions!

1

On average, how long does it take for

nicotine to travel from the lungs to the brain after inhaling?

2 seconds 2

minutes

7 seconds 1

minute

10 minutes

2

What percentage of Canadians smoke cigarettes

on a regular basis?

5% 20%

28.5% 72.8%

None of the above

3

Criteria that describe an addictive drug:

Preoccupation

or compulsion to use

Loss of control over product use

Continued use despite negative

consequences

Psycho-active, mood altering

All of the above

4

A symptom of addiction to nicotine is:

Smoking every day

Smoking 30 minutes after waking

Having 15 or more cigarettes a

day

Always smoking with alcoholic

drinks

All of the above

5

Smoking causes:

The cilia in the lungs to

stop cleaning out the impurities from the air.

The heart to beat faster

The persons hair to be curly

Blood pressure to go up

1, 2 & 4 are true

6

Nicotine fits which criteria of an addictive

drug?

Preoccupation or compulsion

to use it

Loss of control over product use

Continued use despite negative

consequences

A psycho-active, mood altering

drug

All of the above

7

Carbon Monoxide testing is done because:

is present in a smoker’s body as a result of their smoking

Smokers are slowly poisoning

themselves by depleting the CO in their body

Everybody has CO in their body

No reason in particular

8

Nicotine:

Helps people to relax

Is a stimulant

Is an appetite suppressor

Helps people to concentrate

All of the above

9

Carbon monoxide:

Is found in the exhaust

coming from a car

Is a by-product of smoking

Cuts the blood-oxygen levels in

a smoker

Causes a smoker’s heart to

enlarge

All of the above

10

Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) or

secondhand smoke, negatively affects:

Just people who have asthma

All people in a restaurant/bar

where smoking occurs

Only people who live with a

smoker

Only babies

11

The main reason people give for choosing to

smoke:

It tastes so good

It feels cool in the mouth

It helps them with stressful

situations

They like to stand outside in

the rain

To be noticed by others

12

Addiction to nicotine is:

Only

a chemical addiction

Includes behaviours like

hand-to-mouth actions

Includes the friends we smoke

with

Includes feelings of insecurity

without cigarettes

Numbers 2, 3 & 4 are true.

13

Tobacco causes 4 times as many deaths as

motor vehicle accidents, suicide, homocide & AIDS combined.

True

False

Not true in Canada

Not True in the USA

14

CO testing tells a smoker:

How much oxygen is in his/her

blood

How well their lungs

work

How much carbon monoxide is

staying in their body after smoking

How fast their heart beats

after smoking

None of the above

Funding
for this program has been provided in part by the Government
of Ontario and by Health Canada.
Ce program est financé par
le Gouvernement de l’Ontario et par Santé Canada.

The ‘Leave
The Pack Behind’ name
for this program has been adopted with permission from the
World Health Organization.
Le nom du programme en anglais ‘Leave The Pack Behind’ a été emprunté à la
Journée mondiale sans tabac de 1999 avec la permission
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