Health Chapter: 21
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- BAC
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blood alcohol concentration
*depends on gender, age, height, weight
*amount of food in stomach
*amount of alcohol drunk
*rate your drink - Nicotine
- the addictive drug found in tobacco leaves
- Tar
- A thick, sticky, dark fluid produced when tobacco burns
- Negative Effects of tobacco
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Short Term Effects:
*changes in brain chemistry
*increased respiration and heart rate
*dulled taste buds and reduced appetite
*bad
Long Term Effects:
*chronic bronchitis
*emphysema - Emphysema
- A disease that progressively destroys the walls of the alveoli.
- Cancer
- Uncontrollable growth of abnormal cells
- Cardiovascular Disease
- A disease that affects the heart or blood vessels
- mainstream smoking
- the smoke exchale from the lungs of a smoker
- intoxication
- The state in which the body is poisoned by alcohol or another substance and the person's physical and mental control is significantly reduced
- Passive Smoke
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non smokers who involunatariley breath sidestream smoke.
can irrateat the nose,throat, and cause the eyes to burn.
sidestream smoke is 2x the tar/nicotine and 3X the CO2.When compared to mainstream smoke. - Respiratory Disease
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coughing or smoker's hack.
increased risk of emphysema,lung cancer, and chronic bronchitis - CO2
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When CO2 is inhaled it takes the place of the O2 on the hemoglobin.
the more CO2 in the blood the less O2 carried in hte blood.
the heart works harder to get the O2 to the organs and muscles= shorten breath.