Tobacco, Alcohol & Drug Internet Worksheet
Go to the following website and answer the following questions:
www.intheknowzone.com
(Click on Alcohol)
(Short Term Effects)
1. List 6 short term effects of alcohol use:
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
(Long Term Effects)
2. Who is more likely to develop an alcohol abuse or dependence problem, men or women?
3. List 2 effects that heavy drinking can cause in teenagers:
a.
b.
4. People who drink as teenagers have a greater chance of what later in life?
5. List 4 diseases alcohol can cause for the liver:
a. b.
c. d.
6. List 5 other health problems caused by drinking alcohol. (found at the bottom of the section)
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
(Drunk Driving)
7. Approximately how many people are killed each year in alcohol related crashes?
8. How many of the above number were between the ages of 16 – 20?
(BAC)
9. At what % BAC could death occur?
10. What happens to someone who has a BAC of .05?
(Go back to main website and click on Marijuana)
11. Just because marijuana is grown naturally does not mean that damage is not done by smoking it. List 4 things you put yourself at risk of if you smoke marijuana:
a.
b.
c.
d.
(Short Term)
12. List 5 short term effects of marijuana use:
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
(Long Term Effects)
13. What long term effects does marijuana have on the following areas:
A. Respiratory System:
B. Immune System:
C. Reproductive System:
14. What type of emotional damages could occur from smoking marijuana?
15. What type of intellectual damage could occur?
(Go back to main web site and click on
What To Say When You Want to Say “NO”)
(Statistics)
16. What are the 3 leading causes of death for 15 – 24 year olds?
17. Young people who drink are ______times more likely
to use other illicit drugs and ______times more likely to use
______than young people who never drink.
18. Almost ______% of regular smokers began smoking
before the age of ______.
19. What % of people aged 12 – 18 don’t use marijuana and don’t think it is OK? ______.
20. Teens who ______with their
parents are less likely to ______.
(Reasons to Refuse)
21. What are the 5 reasons listed as reasons to “refuse to use”.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
(Go to main website and click on Tobacco)
(Short Term Effects)
22. What short term effects are there for smokeless tobacco that are different from the short term effects of cigarettes?
(Long Term Effects)
23. What long term effects are there from smoking on the Reproductive System?
24. What other long term damage might occur from smoking? (look at the end of this section)