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The following video was produced to bring awareness of the negative consequences of tobacco use in all forms. We welcome your commentary about the video, positive or negative. Please note that comments with obscene or profane language will automatically be deleted. Produced by students for a health communications class at the University of Florida. Videography and editing by Brent Richardson for the College of Public Health & Health Professions. Funded by UF AHEC. Summer 2010.
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For those who would like more information on the health effects of hookah, we suggest the following websites, videos, and articles:

http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/tobacco_industry/hooka...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uA2TbaTafo&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Efunhea...

Monzer, B., Sepetdjian, E., Saliba, N., & Shihadeh, A. (2008). Charcoal emissions as a source of CO and carcinogenic PAH in mainstream narghile waterpipe smoke. Food and Chemical Toxicology, 46, 2991-2995. Available at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=MImg&_imagekey=B6T6P-4SNNT9K-3-C...

Maziak , W., Rastam, S., Ibrahim, I.,Ward, K. D., Shihadeh, A., & Eissenberg, T. (2009). CO exposure, puff topography, and subjective effects in waterpipe tobacco smokers. Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 11(7), 806-811.

Bacha, Z. A., Salameh, P., & Waked, M. (2007). Saliva cotinine and exhaled carbon monoxide levels in natural environment waterpipe smokers. Inhalation Toxicology, 19, 771-777.

Knishkowy, B. & Amitai, Y. (2005). Water-pipe (narghile) smoking: An emerging health risk behavior. Pediatrics, 116(1), e113-e119. Available at http://www.pediatrics.org/cgi/content/full/116/1/e113

Jackson, D.& Aveyard, P. (2008). Waterpipe smoking in students: Prevalence, risk factors, symptoms of addiction, and smoke intake. Evidence from one British university. BMC Public Health, 8, 174-178. Available at http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/8/174

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[bike4evr]

corny retarded anti smoking commercials. let people make their own desisions. also, most hookah bars give each person their own plastic mouthtip that is in a sealed bag.

[leeknivek]

That's not from smoking hookah, that's from SHARING it. The same thing can happen from sharing anything else with contact to your mouth.