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Check Your Second Hand Smoke IQ

Check your Second Hand Smoke IQ

1. There are two forms of secondhand smoke: the smoke that comes from the burning end of a cigarette, cigar, or pipe, and the smoke that is exhaled by smokers. Only the first type is hazardous to your health.

True
False

2. Secondhand smoke contains more than 4,000 substances. More than 40 of these

True
False

3. Exposure to secondhand smoke can cause lung cancer in people who don’t smoke

True
False

4. Secondhand smoke does not increase the risk of heart disease in nonsmokers.

True
False

5. The jury is still out on whether secondhand smoke causes other health problems besides lung cancer and heart disease

True
False

6. Children are not susceptible to the harmful effects of secondhand smoke.

True
False

7. Secondhand smoke exposure causes other problems besides asthma in children, especially infants and toddlers.

True
False

8. Designated smoking areas in workplaces, restaurants, and other locations are all that's needed to protect nonsmokers from secondhand smoke.

True
False

9. Secondhand smoke is now considered a major cause of preventable death in the United States.

True
False

10. Childhood asthma is made worse by exposure to secondhand smoke

True
False

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