Test Your Knowledge On The DARE Program
Drug Knowledge Quiz

So you think you know a lot about drugs. If you have take any of the other tests on this site, those will be easy compared to this one. First we will start with the number one killer; tobacco. If you get eight or more right you may move on to the next drug level. This script will automatically check your answers for you.

Objective: Answer 8 questions correctly. JavaScript required!

1. The most widely cultivated species of tobacco grows from:

1 to 5 ft high
2 to 8 ft high
3 to 10 ft high
4 to 11 ft high
5 to 12 ft high
6 to 15 ft high

2. In colonial America the use of tobacco began in what settlement ?

Plymouth
Port Smith
Hartford
Nantucket
Jamestown
Baltimore

3. The Arawak people of the Caribbean, observed by Christopher Columbus in 1492, smoked tobacco through a tube they called a:

cigaro.
pipus.
marborro.
bonjay.
winstone.
tobago.

4. Since early 1970 the number of cigarettes smoked per capita by American adults has remained virtually unchanged at about:

900 per year.
1900 per year.
2900 per year.
3900 per year.
4900 per year.
5900 per year.

5. From 1974 to 1987 U.S. exports in tobacco products and leaf rose in average value from $650 million to:

$725 million.
$900 million.
$1.0 billion.
$1.6 billion.
$2.5 billion.
$3.4 billion.

6. What year was the cigarette-making machine invented ?

1851
1881
1899
1902
1907
1911

7. Which country is the worlds largest producer of tobacco ?

Brazil
China
England
Germany
Soviet Union
United States

8. In what year did the "Surgeon General's" mandated warning appear on cigarette packages ?

1961
1964
1967
1969
1971
1972

9. In what year was cigarette advertisements banned from television and radio ?

1964
1967
1969
1970
1971
1974

10. Approximately how many people still die from tobacco products each year in the United States ?

100,000
200,000
300,000
400,000
500,000
600,000