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| | News - Water-Pipe Smoking Poses Health Threat to Teens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | According to a study by researchers at the Israel Ministry of Health in Jerusalem, Israel, water-pipe smoking, also known as narghile smoking, is on the rise among teens across the world. |
 | | Teens held common misconceptions about water-pipe smoking, such as that it involved less nicotine exposure than cigarettes, that the water filtered out the toxic chemicals, that it was less irritating to the respiratory tract, and that the tobacco contained fruit, so it was healthy. |
 | | Teens said they smoked because it brought them pleasure, it helped them feel intimate at a social gathering, it helped them deal with pressure, and because it helped them to be accepted by their peers. |
| kidshealth.org /research/water_pipe.html (656 words) |
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