Multiple-Choice Maladies (Misc.)

Check out this assortment of tobacco-related questions to see if you are up-to-speed with all the adverse health effects smoking causes.

Question 1: Taking up smoking helps you lose weight by:
a) Increasing physical fitness
b) Causing you to eat less
c) Speeding up your metabolism
d) None of the above

Question 2: Which of the following is caused by smoking?
a) Premature baldness in men
b) Chest hair on women
c) Cough with phlegm
d) Autism

Question 3: Smoking increases your susceptibility to which of the following?
a) Flu, pneumonia, tuberculosis
b) Arthritis, lupus
c) Infertility, menstrual cramps, and irregular periods
d) All of the above

Question 4: Smokers are how much more likely than non-smokers to develop the scaly, red, chronic skin condition called psoriasis?
a) 25% more likely
b) 50% more likely
c) Twice as likely
d) 400 times as likely

Question 5: Smokers in their 40s have approximately as many wrinkles as non-smokers in their:
a) Early 50s
b) Mid-50s
c) Late 50s
d) 60s

The results

The explanations

Question 1: Taking up smoking helps you lose weight by:
Correct answer: None of the above
Your answer: Increasing physical fitness Causing you to eat less Speeding up your metabolism None of the above you left this question blank

Explanation:

Smoking is not associated with weight loss. People who are already smokers sometimes gain weight when quitting, since they may substitute eating for the satisfaction of smoking, but that problem can be avoid by watching one's consumption after quitting -- and can be even more easily avoided by not smoking in the first place.

Question 2: Which of the following is caused by smoking?
Correct answer: Cough with phlegm
Your answer: Premature baldness in men Chest hair on women Cough with phlegm Autism you left this question blank

Explanation:

That's just one of countless effects smoking has, of course, but it's one of the most common.

Question 3: Smoking increases your susceptibility to which of the following?
Correct answer: All of the above
Your answer: Flu, pneumonia, tuberculosis Arthritis, lupus Infertility, menstrual cramps, and irregular periods All of the above you left this question blank


Question 4: Smokers are how much more likely than non-smokers to develop the scaly, red, chronic skin condition called psoriasis?
Correct answer: Twice as likely
Your answer: 25% more likely 50% more likely Twice as likely 400 times as likely you left this question blank

Explanation:

Doctors don't completely understand the causes of psoriasis, however they do know that smokers are at least twice as likely as a nonsmoker to develop the ugly, itchy skin disease at some time in their lives.

Question 5: Smokers in their 40s have approximately as many wrinkles as non-smokers in their:
Correct answer: 60s
Your answer: Early 50s Mid-50s Late 50s 60s you left this question blank

Explanation:

Scientists, using special methods that examine the skin, have discovered that smoking affects the development of wrinkles of young people in their 20s and 30s -- definitely not the people you would expect to have wrinkles!