Healthy airways

• Biologie
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 3

Healthy airways: Smoking

What are we going to do today?

• Healthy airways: smoking (10 min)
• Research smoking (15 min)
• Presentations (10 min)
• Quiz (10 min)

 What is inside a sigaret?

- Carbon monoxide (binding to blood cells instead of oxygen)

- Tar (coughing, sticky layer inside alveoli)

- Nicotine (addicted) 

Dit zit er allemaal in een sigaret.

Research smoking.    (15 min)

• Answer the following questions and make a small poster.
  

1. How many people of your age in The Netherlands smoke on average?
2. Can your body fully restore when you quit smoking? if so, how long does it take?
3. How does smoking affect a baby when a pregnant woman smokes?
4. Is vaping just as bad for you as smoking tobacco? 
5. Are there any measures taken to stop people from smoking?
6. What do you think could help preventing young people from smoking?
7. How bad is secondhand smoking?

You can become addicted after just a few cigarettes.

1. True
2. False

Manufacturers add flavors to make cigarettes tastier.

1. True
2. False

Shisha smoking, also known as water pipe smoking,
is flavoured tobacco through a bowl and hose from which
the smoker inhales smoke.
The average shisha-smoking session lasts an hour and in
this time you can inhale the same amount of smoke as from?

1. 2 cigarettes
2. 25 cigarettes
3. 50 cigarettes
4. more than 100 cigarettes

The warnings on the cigarette packs are required by law.

1. True
2. False

You cannot get cancer from other people smoking around you

1. True
2. False

How long does it take for cigarettes to degrade when thrown on the ground?

1. 1 day
2. 4 weeks
3. 9 months
4. 2 years