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Smoking by pregnant women may result in premature birth and high birth weight - ✔✔False
_________ is another term for secondhand smoke - ✔✔environmental tobacco smoke
People who stop smoking at approximately age 30 reduce their risk of dying from smoking-related illness
by greater than - ✔✔90%
Approximately 25% of adult smokers report that they want to quit smoking - ✔✔False
John Rolfe - ✔✔Helped establish the tobacco use in the original 13 states
In the 1600s Turkish poets praised tobacco as one of four elements of the world of pleasure - ✔✔True
In his description of New World plants, Monardes condemned tobacco as a deadly, poisonous substance
- ✔✔False
The ancient Greeks regarded tobacco smoke as divine incense that would bring rain in the dry season -
✔✔False
The first European to inhale tobacco smoke was probably - ✔✔Rodrig de Jerez
People who stop smoking before age 50 reduce their risk of dying from smoking-related illness by
approximately - ✔✔50%
Used in high doses, narcotics can relieve the intense pain associated with some types of cancer. -
✔✔True
, Codeine is frequently used to help narcotic addicts stop using heroin or another more addictive drug. -
✔✔False
Which of the following was the principal reason for the "opium wars" between China and Great Britain? -
✔✔The British attacked the Chinese because of opposition to the British opium trade in China
Use of MPTP causes which of the following diseases? - ✔✔Parkinson's Disease
Heroin has become purer and cheaper than ever before. - ✔✔True
Hypodermic needles were used extensively during the Civil War to administer morphine for pain and
dysentery - ✔✔True
Methadone is longer acting than heroin? - ✔✔True
Smoking narcotics has only been popular since the 1980s? - ✔✔False
Codeine is most likely to be used to relieve __________. - ✔✔Coughing
Codeine in cough medicine can be sold without a Rx in some states? - ✔✔True
Withdrawals from chronic heroin use often are lethal if not treated - ✔✔False
Heroin addicts experience a psychological "high" from playing with the needle and syringe they use to
inject the drug - ✔✔True
- ✔✔Meperidine