Kills: What’s in ?

There are over 4,000 chemicals found in cigarettes and over 50 of them are cancer causing. Contents: Acetone Cyanide Aluminum Ammonia DDT/ Dieldrin Ethanol Formaldehyde Arsenic Hydrogen Cyanide Benzene Butane Lead Cadmium Methanol Carbon Monoxide Tar

Carbon Dioxide Chloroform

Vinyl Chloride In the United States,

24.8 million Men Hookah vs. Cigarettes 21.1 million Women are smokers. What the continents of a Smoking kills around 443,000 people in the Facts, cigarette can do to your body: US each year. -Of these deaths, about: -Tar: Misconceptions and A carcinogen (substance that causes cancer) 42,800 are from smoking-related

-Nicotine: cancers Risks Addictive and increases cholesterol levels in 30,600 from cardiovascular disease PLACE PHOTO HERE, your body 29,100 die slowly from emphysema OTHERWISE DELETE BOX and other chronic lung diseases. -Carbon Monoxide: Reduces oxygen in the body Health Affects of Smoking Cigarettes -Components of the gas and particulate phases and Hookah: cause chronic obstructive pulmonary • Heart Disease disorder (COPD). • Lung Cancer – 90% of lung cancer cases are due to smoking • Skin, esophagus, stomach, kidney, cervix, pancreas, bladder cancer. • Loss of bone destiny and • Cancer of the lips, mouth, throat • Chronic Bronchitis • Asthma • Wrinkles Health Education Office • Stomach ulcers • Infertility/ Impotence Center for Student Development • Leukemia Room 211 #401-254-3413

What is Hookah? Water-Pipe Setup:

-Hookah is an instrument used to smoke in which the -Bowl: holds the coal and tobacco. smoke is cooled and filtered by -Ashtray: catch ashes falling off the passing through water. coals. -Hose: tube allows the smoke to be -Originated in ancient Persia & (400 years ago) drawn for a distance, cooling down before inhalation. -Also called Narghile, Hubble- -Water Jar/Base: cools and Hookah contains: Bubble, Goza humidifies the smoke. Tar

Carbon Monoxide Heavy Metals

Nicotine Fact vs. Fiction Myth #1: Hookah smoke is filtered Cancer-Causing Chemicals (AKA Carcinogens) through water thus making it cleaner. Reality: Smoking tobacco through -36x more tar water doesn’t filter out cancer- - more carbon monoxide causing carcinogens. It can still 15x damage the heart and lungs as -70% more nicotine than ONE cigarette much as normal cigarette can.

**1 hour of hookah session can deliver 50 liters Myth #2: Inhaling hookah smoke does (which is about 13 gallons) of smoke whereas a single not burn the lungs. cigarette delivers only 0.5 liters of smoke. Reality: The hookah smoke does

not burn the lungs because it is cooled through water before Due to the mode of smoking-including inhaled. Hookah smoke still frequency of puffing, depth of contains carcinogens. inhalation, and length of the smoking session---hookah smokers absorb Myth #3: Smoking hookah is healthier higher concentrations of the toxins than smoking cigarettes: found in cigarette smoke. Reality: Smoking hookah is just as dangerous as smoking cigarettes. Average Cigarette smoker takes 8-12 puffs Average Hookah smoker takes 20-200 puffs Myth #4: Smoking hookah is not addictive. 60 minutes of hookah is equal to smoking 40- Reality: Just like cigarettes, 400 cigarettes. hookah contains nicotine. 1 hr of hookah exposes the smoker to 100-200x the amount of smoke inhaled from 1 cigarette. Brochure Created By: Elise Murphy