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ACTIVITY 3: Tobacco & Nicotine Use - The Health Consequences

For Teachers / Grades 8 & 9 / Activity 3

ACTIVITY 3: Tobacco & Nicotine Use - The Health Consequences

For Teachers / Grades 8 & 9 / Activity 3

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What is secondhand smoke?

Secondhand smoke is made up of smoke that comes off the burning cigarette and the smoke that the smoker exhales.20 According to the Surgeon General, "No amount of secondhand smoke is safe…Scientists believe even a little tobacco smoke can be dangerous."20

Visit https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/secondhand-smoke/about.html for additional information about diseases and health consequences related to tobacco use.

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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke: A Report of the Surgeon General-What is Secondhand Smoke? Referenced 2012.

www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/reports/
secondhand-smoke-consumer.pdf
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CDC. Smoking & Tobacco Use. Information Sheets. You(th) and Tobacco—What Youth Should Know About Tobacco. Referenced 2012.

www.cdc.gov/tobacco/basic_information/youth/information-sheet/
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