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Tobacco Quiz
- If a tobacco company executive gets a $1000 bonus for each new teenager who starts smoking in Canada and 1000 teenagers in Canada start smoking each year. How much money will he make by the end of the year?
a) $25
b) $50 000
c) $100 000
d) $1 million dollars
Answer: One million dollars is a conservative estimate for a reasonable bonus. After all an average smoker will spend $1460 a year on cigarettes. If that teenager smokes 10 years, that's $14,600. Consider what you are worth to the tobacco industry.
- Which of the following "legal" products contains chemicals that are addictive, and kills about 560 people an hour? 1
a) Pizza
b) Desk Chairs
c) MP3 players
d) Cigarettes
Answer: While, pepperoni, hydraulic chairs and digital music are all legal products we use everyday, tobacco is the only legal product which kills close to 5 million people worldwide each year. 2
- What is the most harmful to your health?
a) Eating haggis.
b) Swimming in a pool that someone has peed in.
c) Being in a smoke-filled room.
Answer: As any Scottish person or lifeguard will tell you, being in a smoke-filled room is the most harmful to your health. In fact second hand smoke is the third leading preventable cause of death. 3
- What is the only product if used directly as the manufacturer intends will kill you?
a) Chewing gum
b) Ipods
c) Cigarettes
d) Fax machines
Answer: Only cigarettes are manufactured with the full knowledge of the manufacturer that the product will kill the consumer.
- What is the only product not required to list its ingredients?
a) Chocolate bars
b) Jelly beans
c) Cigarettes
d) Licorice
Answer: While chocolate bars, jelly beans and licorice may not be healthy snack choices, only cigarette companies will not provide a list of the ingredients in their product because they do not want us to know all of the deadly chemicals that they add.
References:
- www.who.int/mediacentre/releases/pr82/en/
- Ezzati, M & Lopez, AD, 2004, Regional, disease specific patterns of smoking-attributable mortality in 2000. Tobacco. Control, 13: 388 - 395.
- www.smoke-free.ca/Health/pscissues_health.htm
