FYI
8. A strategy used in medicine and social policy to minimise
harm to individuals and/or wider society from hazardous
behaviours or practices that cannot be completely avoided or
prevented is called:
a - highly probable
b - slightly probable
c - quite low
d - inherently unlikely
a - proactive prevention
b - harm reduction
c - cognitive behavioural therapy
d - subliminal advertising
16. Fill in the missing words in this sentence taken from the
RCP report. “[I]f [blank] could be delivered effectively and
acceptably to smokers without [blank], most if not all of the
harm of smoking could probably be avoided.”
9. Which of the following are examples of the strategy
described in Question 8.
a - nicotine/smoke
b - smoke/nicotine
c - vapour/regulation
d - education/pain
• Providing clean needles and syringes to intravenous drug users
to reduce the risk of infection.
• Promoting condom use by sex workers.
• Drink driving laws.
• Motor vehicle safety measures and emission controls.
17. Current efforts to reduce smoking in the UK are working
says the RCP report. However on current levels how long it
would take UK smoking rates to approach zero?
a - none of them
b - all of them
c - (i) and (iii) only
d - (i) (ii) and (iii) only
a - about two years
b - about two decades
c - about one year
d - about one decade
10. The Royal College of Physicians report describes smoking as:
18. When do most smokers in the UK start smoking?
a - alarmingly harmful
b - addictive and lethal
c - absolutely loathsome
d - acceptable and desirable
a - during their teenage or early adult years.
b - during their pre-teen years.
c - during their pre-teen or teenage years.
d - during their teenage years.
11. Approximately how many lifelong smokers in the UK will die
as a direct consequence of their smoking according to the RCP
report?
19. Nicotine, at relatively low doses, is what?
a - three days
b - three weeks
c - three months
d - three years
13. Most of the harm from smoking arises from:
a - nicotine
b - other components of tobacco smoke apart from nicotine
c - breathing in other people’s second hand smoke
d - a chemical imbalance in the brain caused by inhaling tobacco
smoke
14. True or false. The RCP report says: “Harm reduction, as a
complement to conventional tobacco control policies, could…
offer a means to prevent millions of deaths among tobacco
smokers in the UK alone.”
15. The RCP report describes the chances of nicotine inhalation
itself as significantly contributing to the mortality or morbidity
caused by smoking as:
Scoring:
0 - 5 You are interested in vaping but reading long and technical
reports on smoking and vaping clearly is not your thing.
6 - 10 You have not had the time or inclination to read the report
but you have paid more than passing attention to articles on
smoking and vaping in your time.
11 - 15 You clearly have a very good understanding on the harm
caused by smoking and the way that vaping can help people quit
this harmful habit. You may even have read this report too.
16 - 20 You are something of an expert here yourself. If people
want advice on the harm caused by smoking and tips on how
vaping could help them quit then you are a great person to know.
Answers:
12. For every year smoked after the age of 35, the RCP report
says that smokers lose an average life expectancy of:
20. True or false. The RCP report says: “Around 40 cases of
sudden infant death syndrome are caused by smoking in the
UK each year.”
1. A, 2. D, 3. D, 4. D, 5. A, 6. B, 7. B, 8. B, 9. B, 10. B, 11. C, 12. C, 13. C, 14.
True, 15. D, 16. A, 17. B, 18. A, 19. A, 20. True
a - one quarter
b - one third
c - half
d - two thirds
a - a stimulant
b - a depressant
c - both a stimulant and a depressant
d - neither a stimulant nor a depressant
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