HLTH 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Prostate Cancer, Coronary Circulation, Blood Vessel

• School: Towson University
• Department: Health Science
• Course: HLTH 101
• Professor: Karen Renaud

Document Summary

A 20 years smoker takes about 2 million puffs. Dopamine is released into the pleasure and motivation part of the brain, which cause temporary feeling of well being. Between 80% - 95% of alcoholics" smoke. Smokers are 10x more likely to develop alcoholism. 3 short term effects of smoking are: shortness of breath, wrinkles, smells. Bronchitis is an inflammation and infection if the bronchial tube, its symptoms are: excess mucus, chronic cough, difficulty breathing. Emphysema is where the air sac lose it elasticity and rapture, which leads the lung to lose their ability to obtain oxygen and remove carbon dioxide, it symptoms are: gasping for air, breathlessness, feeling of drowning. Cancer is an abnormal and uncontrollable growth of cells. The most common cause of cancer death in the u. s is lung cancer. The percent of lung cancer cases that are due to tobacco smoke is 87%