Pipes

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Pipes

• Navy Health Promotion Program

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Who Smokes Pipes?

• In Navy, 4.7 of sailors smoke pipes
• In USMC, 5.8 of marines use pipes
• Pipe use at your command base may be higher
• Native Americans, and older men may use pipes
  more than other groups
• Pipe use may be making a comeback

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Myths, Fibs and the Facts!

• Myth Pipes are safe and wont hurt me
• FACT Pipe smoking is dangerous!
• Pipe smokers face the same health risks and
  medical problems as other smokers! Cancer of the
  mouth, throat and lungs is high!

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More Myths Lies

• Smoking a Pipe is not addictive
• FACT Pipe smokers get just as hooked as other
  smokers! Smoking any type of tobacco, including
  pipe tobacco, can lead to physical and
  psychological dependence!

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Fibs Myths

• Another one- Water pipes are safe
• Fact The use of water pipes such as Hookahs,
  does not filter out the nicotine, tar, carbon
  monoxide and other added chemicals and substances
  to tobacco!

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Another One

• Myth I do not inhale
• Fact Most pipe smokers rationalize and justify
  their pipe smoking by saying that they do not
  inhale. Most smokers inhale some of the pipe
  smoke which is harmful. Holding the pipe smoke
  in the mouth is also dangerous.

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More Fibs Myths

• Switching from smoking cigarettes to pipes is a
  safe and a good way to quit
• Fact Former cigarette smokers usually inhale more
  tobacco smoke than those who had not previously
  smoked. Switching from cigarettes to pipes does
  not decrease nor reduce addiction and dependence
  to nicotine.

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What to Do?

• Do not start smoking a pipe! You will save
  yourself a lot of money, time, grief and
  problems!
• If you smoke a pipe, plan to Quit! Quitting
  smoking is one of the best things you will do in
  your lifetime!

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Be Free Benefits!

• Join the ranks of two million Americans who quit
  smoking every year!
• Enjoy all the money that you will save!
• Improved fitness, better breath, cleaner smell on
  clothes, in car, in house!
• Other personal benefits?

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What You Can Do!

• Encourage your friends, shipmates and family to
  quit smoking!
• Protect yourself, family and friends from the
  harmful effects of second hand smoke!

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