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Misleading portrayals of tobacco's health consequences in popular YouTube videos can increase positivity toward featured products

Misleading Popular Videos Impact Attitudes About Tobacco

Misleading portrayal of tobacco health consequences can increase positivity toward featured product
As of November 2017

More Than 2,000 U.S. Campuses Smoke-Free as of Nov. 2017

>83 percent of these campuses were tobacco-free, banning smoking, smokeless tobacco products
Waterpipe tobacco smoking (or hookah smoking) accounts for half of young adults' tobacco smoke exposure

Over Half of Young Adult Smoke Volume Exposure From Hookahs

Toxicant exposure to tar, carbon monoxide, nicotine lower, but still substantial, compared to cigarettes
Many adolescent users of one or more specific tobacco product type do not self-identify as tobacco users

Many Teens Using Tobacco Don’t Self-Identify As Users

Those in denial often single product users of roll-your-own, pipe, e-cigarette, cigar, or hookah tobacco
Use of the I quit original smoking heat-not-burn system chars the tobacco plug

Heat-Not-Burn Tobacco System Releases Toxic Chemical

Charring of tobacco plug and release of formaldehyde cyanohydrin identified as health concerns
Exclusive current cigarette and cigar use is associated with increased risk of all-cause mortality

Mortality Risks of Exclusive Cigar, Cigarette, Pipe Use ID’d

Higher risk of tobacco-related cancer death for current/former cigarette, current cigar, pipe smoking
Overall

Nearly 30 Percent of Veterans Report Current Tobacco Use

Higher current use of tobacco products for those aged 18 to 25 years, Hispanics, those with low income
Non-cigarette tobacco use is associated with subsequent cigarette smoking among U.S. adolescents

Non-Cigarette Tobacco Use Tied to Future Cigarette Use in Teens

E-cigarettes, hookah, non-cigarette combustible tobacco linked with cigarette smoking 1 year later
Overall

More Than One in Five U.S. Working Adults Uses Tobacco

4.6 percent report current use of two or more products; highest use for construction workers
Consumption of Swedish smokeless tobacco (snus) is associated with increased risk of type 2 diabetes

Review: Smokeless Tobacco Linked to Increased Risk of T2DM

Findings from five pooled cohorts show risk up with each additional box of snus consumed per week