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ACTIVITY 3: Tobacco & Nicotine Addiction

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ACTIVITY 3: Tobacco & Nicotine Addiction

For Teachers / Grade 7 / Activity 3

TOBACCO AND NICOTINE ADDICTION

Approximately seventy percent (70%) of smokers want to quit smoking.24 Why don't they just quit? Because it may not be that easy. According to a report from the U.S. Surgeon General, most teens who smoke want to stop.25 Most young people who smoke regularly are already addicted to nicotine.25" On the next screens, read information from two reports of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)—and see if you can answer the true/false questions—to better understand nicotine and addiction. 26

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CDC. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Quitting Smoking Among Adults—United States, 2001—2010, November 11, 2011. Vol. 47, No. 19. Referenced 2017.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6044a2.htm?s_%20cid=mm6044a2_w%20-%20tab1
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Preventing Tobacco Use Among Young People: A Report of the Surgeon General. Atlanta, Georgia: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 1994. Referenced 2023.

https://nida.nih.gov/research-topics/tobacconicotine-vaping
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Preventing Tobacco Use Among Young People: A Report of the Surgeon General. Atlanta, Georgia: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 1994. Referenced 2023.

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