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    Hookah Myth Answers - Answer Sheet

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    The document is a hookah myth activity that provides statements about hookah smoking and asks the user to determine if each statement is a myth or fact. It includes justifications and sources for each answer. Some key points: - Hookah is not less harmful than cigarettes and exposes users to higher levels of toxins like nicotine, heavy metals, and tar. - There are health risks from sharing a hookah due to potential spread of diseases from shared mouthpieces. - The smoke produced from hookah is an aerosol, not just water vapor, and still contains harmful chemicals. - Hookah smoking poses similar risks of tobacco-related diseases as cigarette smoking

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    The document is a hookah myth activity that provides statements about hookah smoking and asks the user to determine if each statement is a myth or fact. It includes justifications and sources for each answer. Some key points: - Hookah is not less harmful than cigarettes and exposes users to higher levels of toxins like nicotine, heavy metals, and tar. - There are health risks from sharing a hookah due to potential spread of diseases from shared mouthpieces. - The smoke produced from hookah is an aerosol, not just water vapor, and still contains harmful chemicals. - Hookah smoking poses similar risks of tobacco-related diseases as cigarette smoking

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    The document is a hookah myth activity that provides statements about hookah smoking and asks the user to determine if each statement is a myth or fact. It includes justifications and sources for each answer. Some key points: - Hookah is not less harmful than cigarettes and exposes users to higher levels of toxins like nicotine, heavy metals, and tar. - There are health risks from sharing a hookah due to potential spread of diseases from shared mouthpieces. - The smoke produced from hookah is an aerosol, not just water vapor, and still contains harmful chemicals. - Hookah smoking poses similar risks of tobacco-related diseases as cigarette smoking

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    The document is a hookah myth activity that provides statements about hookah smoking and asks the user to determine if each statement is a myth or fact. It includes justifications and sources for each answer. Some key points: - Hookah is not less harmful than cigarettes and exposes users to higher levels of toxins like nicotine, heavy metals, and tar. - There are health risks from sharing a hookah due to potential spread of diseases from shared mouthpieces. - The smoke produced from hookah is an aerosol, not just water vapor, and still contains harmful chemicals. - Hookah smoking poses similar risks of tobacco-related diseases as cigarette smoking

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    Hookah Myth Activity


    “Don’t Inhale, Don’t get Hookahd”

    Instructions: Do an Internet search to find answers to the questions. Then, fill out whether each
    statement is a myth or fact. Next, fill out the justification box explaining why a statement is
    correct or false.

    Statement Myth/Fact Justification/Source


    Hookah is less harmful than Myth Hookah exposes users to nicotine, an addictive chemical, heavy
    cigarettes. metals, and tar. The smoke produced by hookah may also contain
    higher levels of arsenic, lead, nickel, 36x more tar, and 15x more
    carbon monoxide than cigarettes

    Source:
    http://www.health.umd.edu/sites/default/files/Hookah%20Brochure-
    %20Final_0.pdf
    There are risks from sharing Fact Hookah is typically used in groups with the same mouthpiece being
    hookah in a group setting. passed around, so sharing a hookah in a group setting may increase
    the risk of contracting tuberculosis, Hepatitis C, Herpes, and H. Pylori.

    Source:
    https://www.michigan.gov/documents/mdch/TheHookah-
    ACCESSandACC_481466_7.pdf
    The clouds made by hookah Myth By definition an aerosol is a suspension of fine solid or liquid particles
    are water vapors. in gas, smoke, fog, or mist. While water vapor is dispersion in air of
    molecules of water through evaporation. Hookah produces smoke that
    cannot simply be water vapors, but aerosols filled with toxins.

    Source:
    https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/water%20vapor
    https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aerosol
    Smoking a Hookah carries Myth Hookah contains many of the same toxins as cigarettes. Smoking
    less risk of tobacco-related either may still cause lung cancer or respiratory illnesses. Since
    diseases than smoking hookah sessions allow users to smoke for prolonged amount of time
    cigarettes. they are exposed to high concentrations of toxins, increasing their
    risks to tobacco-related diseases.

    Source:
    https://betobaccofree.hhs.gov/news/hookah-smoking.html

    Tobacco Prevention Toolkit


    Division of Adolescent Medicine, Stanford University
    www.tobaccopreventiontoolkit.stanford.edu, tobprevtoolkit@stanford.edu

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    It’s okay if I just go to a Myth Even if you are at a tobacco bar and not smoking hookah, you are still
    tobacco bar and do not being exposed to second hand smoke. Second hand smoke can still
    smoke hookah. cause coughing, respiratory infections, heart disease, stroke, or lung
    cancer.

    Source:
    http://www.health.umd.edu/sites/default/files/Hookah%20
    Brochure-%20Final_0.pdf

    https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_
    sheets/secondhand_smoke/health_effects/index.html
    The water jar filters the Myth Smoking tobacco through water does not clean the tobacco. The water
    harmful chemicals from the is actually meant to cool the smoke, allowing users to take deeper
    Hookah smoke. inhalations for longer periods of time. All ingredients, along with their
    chemicals, are still present in the smoke.

    Source:
    https://www.michigan.gov/documents/mdch/TheHookah-
    ACCESSandACC_481466_7.pdf

    http://www.health.umd.edu/sites/default/files/Hookah%20Brochure-
    %20Final_0.pdf
    A hookah session is more Fact Hookah sessions are typically around an hour in length, which is an
    harmful than smoking a estimated 200-puffs per session. Hookah users would consume the
    pack of cigarettes. equivalent of about 100 cigarettes from one of these sessions.

    Source:
    https://www.webmd.com/smoking-cessation/news/20100510/hookahs-
    safer-than-cigarettes-thats-a-pipe-dream#1

    https://betobaccofree.hhs.gov/news/hookah-smoking.html
    Hookah is addictive. Fact Hookah contains tobacco, which has a naturally occurring chemical
    know as nicotine. Nicotine stimulates the pleasure part of your brain
    but only for a short period, so continuous use is required to maintain
    that pleasure. This repetition is what leads smokers to addiction.

    Source:
    https://betobaccofree.hhs.gov/health-effects/nicotine-health/index.html

    Tobacco Prevention Toolkit


    Division of Adolescent Medicine, Stanford University
    www.tobaccopreventiontoolkit.stanford.edu, tobprevtoolkit@stanford.edu

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