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

Fiction: Smoking with my friends won’t hurt me. Fact: Social smoking is smoking.

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• Social smoking is smoking.

• Social smoking can lead to regular smoking.

Fiction: Real smokers are people who can’t make it through a day without their cigarettes.

Fact: Social smoking can lead to regular smoking.

You can have fun without smoking.

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• 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.

Fiction: There’s 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.

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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/issues/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.tobaccofreecollegesnc.com/elements/files/Social_fact_sheets_college.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/2010/highlight_sheets/pdfs/overview_cancer.pdf

– Partnership for a Tobacco-Free Maine. 2008. “Why Quit?” http://www.tobaccofreemaine.org/quit_tobacco/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 112:862–869. http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/112/6/862.long

References

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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.

Photograph Credits

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