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Effects of smoking - class-XI

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Smoking can cause 

  1. Bronchitis

  2. Tuberculosis

  3. Malaria

  4. Influenza


Correct Option: A
Explanation:
Chronic bronchitis occurs when the bronchial tubes are constantly irritated and inflamed. When inflammation of the bronchial tubes occurs, the lining of the airways swells and produces an excess amount of mucus. Both of these issues obstruct airflow and make breathing more difficult. Cigarette smoke contains thousands of chemical components. When we breathe in cigarette smoke, the chemicals irritate and activate certain white blood cells (macrophages) and cells that make up the lining of the airways (epithelial cells). This causes the cells to release multiple types of cytokines, which are small signaling proteins that cause the airway lining to thicken and airways to become inflamed. The persistent airway inflammation caused by cigarette smoke can cause a cycle of injury and repair that changes the structure of the airways and makes them narrower.
Therefore, the correct answer is option A.

Which is related to tobacco addiction?

  1. Gastric and duodenal ulcers

  2. Bronchitis

  3. Emphysema

  4. All of the above


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Emphysema is a form of chronic lung disease, usually caused by smoking.
Bronchitis is caused by tobacco smoke, dust, fumes, vapors and air pollution.
Gastric and duodenal ulcers that occur in the stomach are called as gastric ulcers. Ulcers that occur in the upper area of small intestine, which is the duodenal ulcers.
Therefore, the correct answer is option D.

Effects of nicotine on human body include

  1. Release of adrenaline and hence increased blood pressure and heart beat

  2. Stimulation of nerve impulse and muscle relaxation

  3. Decreased foetal growth

  4. All of the above


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Nicotine is a potent parasympathomimetic alkaloid and a stimulant drug. In particular, it is both a stimulant and a relaxant. It causes a release of glucose from the liver and adrenaline from the adrenal medulla thereby causing stimulation of nerve impulses and muscle relaxation.
Nicotine also produces adverse fetal effects. It is likely that hypoxia, undernourishment of the fetus and direct vasoconstrictor effects on the placental and umbilical vessels play a role.
Therefore, the correct answer is option D.

Emphysema is due to intake of

  1. Narcotics

  2. Heroin

  3. Smoking

  4. Opiates


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Emphysema is a long-term, progressive disease of the lungs that primarily causes shortness of breath due to over-inflation of the alveoli (air sacs in the lung). It is mainly caused because of Smoking. Shortness of breath is the most common symptom of emphysema. A cough, sometimes caused by the production of mucus, and wheezing may also be symptoms of emphysema. Stopping of smoking and bronchodilating medications along with steroid medications are the treatment of this disease. Hence, the correct answer is option C.

Emphysema is a condition resulting from 

  1. Cigarette smoking

  2. Liquor consumption

  3. Drug addiction

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: A
Explanation:
Emphysema gradually damages the air sacs (alveoli) in your lungs, making you progressively more short of breath. Emphysema is one of several diseases known collectively as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Smoking is the leading cause of emphysema.
Your lungs' alveoli are clustered like bunches of grapes. In emphysema, the inner walls of the air sacs weaken and eventually rupture — creating one larger air space instead of many small ones. This reduces the surface area of the lungs and, in turn, the amount of oxygen that reaches your bloodstream.
When you exhale, the damaged alveoli don't work properly and old air becomes trapped, leaving no room for fresh, oxygen-rich air to enter. Treatment may slow the progression of emphysema, but it can't reverse the damage.

Therefore, the correct answer is option A.

Tobacco smoking commonly produces

  1. Blood cancer

  2. Lung cancer

  3. Cancer of pancreas

  4. Bone cancer


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Smoking causes many lung diseases that can be nearly as bad as lung cancer. Tobacco contains many chemicals and particles like nicotine that  irritate the airways and the lungs.
Therefore, the correct answer is option B.

Prolonged smoking changes the colour of 

  1. Teeth

  2. Eyes

  3. Skin

  4. Tongue


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Prolonged smoking tends to stain the teeth and change its color, tooth decays and gum diseases.

Therefore, the correct answer is option A.

About 50% of those who die with which of the following disease, are smokers?

  1. Tuberculosis

  2. Lung cancer

  3. Malaria

  4. Polio


Correct Option: B
Explanation:
Smoking and exposure to certain chemicals can greatly increase risk of getting lung cancer. Lung cancer is caused by a mutation in DNA. When cells reproduce, they divide and replicate, forming identical cells, so that body is constantly renewing itself. Inhaling harmful, cancer-causing substances (carcinogens) like cigarette smoke, asbestos, and radon, damages the cells that line our lungs. At first body may be able to repair itself. With repeated exposure cells become increasingly damaged. Over time, the cells begin to act abnormally and grow uncontrollably. This is how cancer can develop.
Therefore, the correct answer is option B.

Smoking addiction is harmful because it produces polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, which causes

  1. Reduction in oxygen transport

  2. Increase in blood pressure

  3. Cancer

  4. Retardation of growth of foetus


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons or PAHs are a group of powerful cancer-causing chemicals found in cigarettes that can damage DNA and set cells down the road to becoming tumours. PAHs tend to damage particular sections of DNA. We know that PAHs contribute to lung cancer in smokers because DNA damage can be seen at these sections in patients.  One PAH compound, benzopyrene, is notable for being the first chemical carcinogen to be discovered (and is one of many carcinogens found in cigarette smoke). Its consequences are so bad, even if the woman exposed to PAH pollution during pregnancy, then there is adverse birth outcomes including low birth weight, premature delivery and heart malformations, lower IQ and asthma. Cord blood of exposed babies shows DNA damage that has been linked to cancer.

Mouth cancer is mainly caused due to cigarette smoking.

  1. True

  2. False


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

  • The leading causes of mouth cancer are tobacco and alcohol. The next major cause is cigarette smoking.
  • Both are carcinogenic, which means they contain chemicals that can damage the DNA in cells and lead to cancer
So, the correct option is 'False'

What does smog affect?

  1. Urinary tract

  2. Lungs

  3. Kidneys

  4. Heart


Correct Option: B

Cigarette smoking causes

  1. Lung cancer

  2. Baldness

  3. Colour blindness

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Cigarette smoking causes lung cancer by damaging the cells that line the lungs. When we inhale cigarette smoke, which is full of cancer-causing substances (carcinogens), changes in the lung tissue begin almost immediately. At first our body may be able to repair this damage. But with each repeated exposure, normal cells that line our lungs are increasingly damaged. Over time, the damage causes cells to act abnormally and eventually cancer may develop. People who smoke cigarettes are 15 to 30 times more likely to get lung cancer or die from lung cancer than people who do not smoke. Even smoking a few cigarettes a day or smoking occasionally increases the risk of lung cancer. The more years a person smokes and the more cigarettes smoked each day, the more risk goes up. Cigarette smoking causes many types of cancer, including cancers of the lung, oesophagus, larynx (voice box), mouth, throat, kidney, bladder, pancreas, stomach, and cervix, as well as acute myeloid leukemia.

A harmful effect of smoking is

  1. Baldness

  2. Yelllowing of eyes

  3. Lung cancer

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: C
Explanation:
In about 80-90% of the deaths that occur due to lung cancer, smoking is the main reason. Cigarette smoke has carcinogens i.e. cancer causing agents. When cigarette smoke is inhaled, changes occur in lung tissue. The cells of lungs are damaged. These cells are repaired by body itself but as more and more cells are damaged and repaired by body, the cells act abnormally and this may result in abnormal and uncontrolled division of cells leading to cancer.
So, the correct answer is 'Lung cancer'.

Heavy smokers are most likely to suffer from

  1. Asthma

  2. Silicosis

  3. Emphysema

  4. Anosmia

  5. Bronchitis


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Emphysema is a progressive, incurable chronic lung infection. The air sacs or the alveoli are destroyed and oxygen uptake is restricted due to the loss of elasticity of lung tissue.
Thus, the correct answer is option (C), 'Emphysema'.

Nicotine acts as a stimulant because it mimics the effect of

  1. Thyroxine

  2. Acetylcholine

  3. Testosterone

  4. Dopamine


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Nicotine is found in the leaves of tobacco. It acts as both stimulant as it mimics the acetylcholine and also as the depressor. It stimulates passage of nerve impulses causes muscles to relax. 

Addiction of smoking leads to

  1. Lung cancer

  2. Bronchitis

  3. Emphysema

  4. All of the above


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Smoking is a practice in which a substance is burned and the resulting smoke breathed in to be tasted and absorbed into the bloodstream.
Emphysema is a form of chronic lung disease, usually caused by smoking.
Bronchitis is caused by tobacco smoke, dust, fumes, vapors and air pollution.
Changes in lung tissue begin when one inhale cigarette smoke.
Therefore, the correct answer is option D.

Substance in tobacco responsible for addiction is

  1. Nicotine

  2. Caffeine

  3. Thiene

  4. All of the above


Correct Option: A

Out of 4000 chemicals released by cigarette, potent carcinogens are

  1. 12

  2. 43

  3. 216

  4. 172


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

A substance that causes cancer is called a carcinogen. Cigarette smoke contains more than 4,000 chemicals out of which 43 are carcinogenic. Some of the carcinogens are nicotine, formaldehyde, benzene, carbon monoxide, etc. Most of the cigarette smoke remains in the lungs. This smoke damages the lung walls causing cancer. Thus the correct answer is option B.

Smokers metabolize nicotine to form

  1. Uric acid

  2. Urea

  3. Cotinine

  4. All of the above


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Nicotine is a major constituent of tobacco, which plays a critical role in smoking addiction. In humans, nicotine is primarily metabolized to cotinine, which is further metabolized to trans-3'-hydorxycotinine.
Thus, the correct answer is option (C), 'Cotinine'.

 Smoking cigarette is harmful because

  1. It causes cancer.

  2. It causes cardiovascular problems.

  3. It causes bronchitis.

  4. All of the above.


Correct Option: D
Explanation:
Cigarette-smoking is harmful because
  • It causes cancer.
  • It causes cardiovascular problems.
  • It causes bronchitis.
Cigarettes, cigars, and pipe tobacco are made from dried tobacco leaves, and ingredients are added for flavor and to make smoking more pleasant. The smoke from these products is a complex mixture of chemicals produced by the burning of tobacco and its additives. Tobacco smoke is made up of more than 7,000 chemicals, including over 70 known to cause cancer (carcinogens). Some of these substances cause heart and lung diseases, too, and all of them can be deadly. You might be surprised to know some of the chemicals found in tobacco smoke include:
  • Cyanide
  • Benzene
  • Formaldehyde
  • Methanol (wood alcohol)
  • Acetylene (the fuel used in welding torches)
  • Ammonia
Tobacco smoke also contains tar and the poison gases carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxide. The ingredient that produces the effect people are looking for is nicotine, an addictive drug and one of the harshest chemicals in tobacco smoke.
The tobacco leaves used to make cigarettes and cigars contain radioactive materials; the amount depends on the soil the plants were grown in and fertilizers used. But this means that the smoke contains small amounts of radioactive material, too, which smokers take into their lungs as they inhale. These radioactive particles build up in the lungs, and over time can mean a big dose of radiation. This may be another key factor in smokers getting lung cancer.

Which out of the following addiction is the most harmful for the respiratory system?

  1. Smoking

  2. Chewing pan

  3. Chewing gutkha

  4. Alcohol consumption


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Addiction is a phenomenon in which there is physical or psychological need to do, take or use something. The various addictions are smoking, chewing pan, chewing gutkha, alcohol, etc. Out of these addictions, the most harmful addiction for the respiratory system is smoking. It causes respiratory diseases like bronchitis, emphysema, laryngitis, breathlessnes, lung irritation. Its continuous use also causes permanent damage to the alveoli of the lungs. Nicotine is the addictive drug which is used in cigarettes.  

Thus, the correct answer is 'Smoking.'

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