Social Smoking

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Social Smoking

• Module 6

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Social Smoking

• Fiction Smoking with my friends wont hurt me.

• Fact Social smoking is smoking.

• Social (intermittent) smokers light up regularly
  but not daily. They think, "I will smoke a
  little in social situations and quit later.

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Social Smoking

• Fiction Real smokers are people who cant make
  it through a day without their cigarettes.

• Fact Social smoking can lead to regular smoking.

• Social smoking is smoking.
• Social smoking can lead to regular smoking.

You can have fun without smoking.
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Social Smoking

• Fiction Theres no risk of getting cancer if
  someone only smokes for a few years.

• Fact If you smoke at all, you are at an
  increased risk for cancer and heart disease.

• If you smoke or are around tobacco smoke, you are
  at an increased risk for cancer and heart
  disease.
• There is hardly a part of the human body that's
  not affected by the chemicals in tobacco.

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Social Smoking
References

• Slide 3 Ackerson, L. K., and K. Viswanath. 2009.
  Communication Inequalities, Social Determinants,
  and Intermittent Smoking in the 2003 Health
  Information National Trends Survey. Preventing
  Chronic Disease 6(2). http//www.cdc.gov/pcd/issue
  s/2009/apr/08_0076.htm
• Slide 4 North Carolina Health and Wellness Trust
  Fund. Tobacco Free Colleges Social Smoking,
  accessed January 10, 2012, http//www.tobaccofreec
  ollegesnc.com/elements/files/Social_fact_sheets_co
  llege.pdf
• Slide 5
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
  Highlights Overview of Findings Regarding
  Cancer, accessed January 10, 2012,
  http//www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/sgr/201
  0/highlight_sheets/pdfs/overview_cancer.pdf
• Partnership for a Tobacco-Free Maine. 2008. Why
  Quit? http//www.tobaccofreemaine.org/quit_tobacc
  o/index.php
• Weitzman, M., S. Cook, P. Auinger, T. A. Florin,
  S. Daniels, M. Nguyen, and J. P. Winickoff. 2005.
  Pediatric Cardiology Tobacco Smoke Exposure Is
  Associated With the Metabolic Syndrome in
  Adolescents. Circulation 112862869.
  http//circ.ahajournals.org/content/112/6/862.long

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Photograph Credits

• Slides 1 and 2 Photographs courtesy of
  iStockphoto.
• Slide 3 Photograph courtesy of
  Thinkstock/Photos.com.
• Slide 4 Photograph courtesy of Dragan
  Trifunovic/Photos.com.
• Slide 5 Photograph courtesy of iStockphoto.
• Photographs are used for illustrative purposes
  only, and any persons depicted are models.

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Prepared by Sterling Fulton-Smith, North Carolina
Department of Health and Human Services Sandhya
Joshi, RTI International Caley Burrus, Duke
University Ronny Bell, Maya Angelou Center for
Health Equity and Barri Burrus, RTI
International. March 2012