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Experimentation with and knowledge regarding water-pipe tobacco smoking among medical students at a major university in Brazil

open access: yesJornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia, 2014
OBJECTIVE: Water-pipe tobacco smoking is becoming increasingly more common among young people. The objective of this study was to estimate the prevalence of the use of water pipes and other forms of tobacco use, including cigarette smoking, among ...
Stella Regina Martins   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prevalence, Knowledge and Perceptions of Smoking and Tobacco Products and Vape Among SEPAR Members

open access: yesOpen Respiratory Archives, 2023
Introduction: The professional dedicated to respiratory health has an exemplary role in tobacco control, promoting smoking cessation in their patients. However, multiple circumstances cause a low implementation.
Carlos A. Jiménez Ruiz   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ameliorating effects of Ascorbic acid and Ammi Visnaga seeds on cigarette and water- pipe smoking Cytotoxicity in the lung and heart ventricle [PDF]

open access: yesBrazilian Journal of Biology
A current study investigated the effects of smoking (Cigarettes and Water-pipes) on the lung and cardiac ventricles by comparing the cytotoxic effects of smoking with certain natural antioxidants. 56 male albino rats were randomly assigned to 7 groups (N
A. A. Alsarhan   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Consumption, opinion and knowledge about tobacco products in health professionals

open access: yesTobacco Prevention and Cessation, 2023
Background In recent years, tobacco products (PT) have proliferated: Heated Tobacco (THP), Water pipes or Shisha and electronic cigarettes with/without nicotine (ENDS/ENNDS). Health professionals must be up-to-date on the TP to promote the prevention of
Adelaida Lozano Polo   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Social and behavioral predictors of two-doses 4CMenB vaccine series among adolescents enrolled in a cluster randomized controlled trial in Australia

open access: yesHuman Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2022
This study aimed to determine social and behavioral predictors of completing a course of 4CMenB vaccine in adolescents in a parallel cluster randomized controlled trial enrolling secondary school students (approximately 15–18 years of age) in South ...
Hassen Mohammed   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Water pipe smoking: an emerging trend with detrimental consequences

open access: yesPan African Medical Journal, 2014
The unprecedented rise in prevalence of water pipe smoking poses a raft of deleterious effects to public health. A past time communal activity mostly practised in Middle East has now extended its tentacles to engulf most parts of the world. What is more worrying is the alacrity exhibited by most African nations in entrenching policies to curb this new ...
Nyongesa, H, Adegu, J
openaire   +3 more sources

A child with refractory orbital cellulitis after water pipe smoking

open access: yesSaudi Journal of Ophthalmology, 2021
Orbital cellulitis in children rarely occurs secondary to smoking water pipe. A 3-year-old girl who presented with fever, eyelid swelling, pain, and proptosis of the left eye for 4 days after water pipe consumption. The patient was given the usual course of antibiotics for a few days along with subperiosteal abscess drainage ...
AlQahtani, Dhabiah S.   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Tobacco use and COVID-19 in Ghana: generating evidence to support policy and practice

open access: yesJournal of Global Health Reports, 2021
# Background The COVID-19 pandemic has affected over 45 million people and caused over a million deaths globally. Tobacco use, a threat to public health worldwide, increases the risk of developing severe COVID-19 disease and death.
Arti Singh   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Locked in Transition: Examining the Role of Paradoxical Tensions in the Transition From Industrial Cluster to Eco‐Clusters

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Industrial clusters are central to the circular economy transition, yet how they develop into eco‐clusters and the paradoxical tensions this transformation fuels remain underexplored. Drawing on 48 in‐depth interviews and secondary data from a Turkish textile‐recycling cluster, we develop an empirically grounded model of eco‐cluster transition
Tulin Dzhengiz   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Water pipe tobacco smoking among university students in Jordan [PDF]

open access: yesNicotine & Tobacco Research, 2010
Although water pipe tobacco smoking is common in Lebanon and Syria, prevalence in neighboring Jordan is uncertain. The purposes of this study were (a) to assess the prevalence of water pipe tobacco smoking among university students in Jordan and (b) to determine associations between sociodemographic variables and water pipe tobacco smoking in this ...
Mohammed, Azab   +5 more
openaire   +2 more sources

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