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Comparison of Nicotine and Carcinogen Exposure with Water Pipe and Cigarette Smoking [PDF]

, 2013
BACKGROUND: Smoking tobacco preparations in a water pipe (hookah) is widespread in many places of the world and is perceived by many as relatively safe.
Jacob, Peyton, Peng, Margaret, Yu, Lisa, Abu Raddaha, Ahmad H, Havel, Christopher, Benowitz, Neal L, Dempsey, Delia   +6 more
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Uncovering Biogas Outcomes: Tales of Hubris, Hope, and Failure From Southern Malawi

Natural Resources Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The purpose of this article is to speak directly to biogas failure. Over the past two decades, immense amounts of money have been spent by African governments, private individuals, and most conspicuously, international aid agencies and donors, on countless biogas projects in every country on the continent.
Marc Kalina, Jonathan Kwangulero, Jonathan Òlal Ogwang, Natalie Boyd Williams, Elizabeth Tilley   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Smoking water pipe is injurious to lungs.

, 2014
This review describes the pulmonary consequences of water pipe smoking. Smoking water pipe affects the lung function negatively, is significantly associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and increases the risk of lung infections.
Sivapalan, Pradeesh, Lange, Peter, Ringbæk, Thomas   +2 more
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Bridging the Late Antique Gap in Northwest Arabia: New Archaeological Evidence on the Occupation of Wādī al‐Qurā (al‐ʿUlā [AlUla], Saudi Arabia) Between the Third and Seventh Centuries CE

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2019, the Dadan Archaeological Project (CNRS/RCU/AFALULA) identified a Late Antique village 1 km south of ancient Dadan in the al‐ʿUlā valley (northwest Saudi Arabia). Three excavation seasons at this site (2021–2023) have uncovered a massive building constructed in the late third or early fourth cent.
Jérôme Rohmer, Abdulrahman Alsuhaibani, Charlène Bouchaud, Elora Chambraud, Vladimir Dabrowski, Hatem Djerbi, Fabien Lesguer, Hervé Monchot, Paul Picavet, Louise Purdue, Bertrand Riba, Shadi Shabo   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Airway reactivity to mannitol is similarly increased in chronic cigarette and water pipe smokers

International Journal of COPD, 2018
Andreas Scherr, Jerome Schmidlin, Silvio Albisser, Michael Tamm, Daiana Stolz Clinic for Pneumology and Respiratory Cell Research, University Hospital of Basel, Basel, Switzerland Background: In contrast to cigarette smoking, the association between ...
Scherr A, Schmidlin J, Albisser S, Tamm M, Stolz D   +4 more
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Trend of cigarette smoking in Iranian adult population from 2000 to 2011 based on four national surveys

Social Determinants of Health, 2017
Background: Tobacco smoking has been a major health concern for many years. People's awareness of the potential health hazards and government policies might change its pattern and prevalence of use.
Alipasha Meysamie, Reza Ghalehtaki, Saeed Ghodsi, Alireza Esteghamati, Kazem Mohammad, Kouroush Etemad, Jalil Koohpayezadeh, Ehsan Shojaeefar   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Changing public perceptions of alcohol, alcohol harms and alcohol policies: A multi‐methods study to develop novel framing approaches

Addiction, Volume 120, Issue 4, Page 655-668, April 2025.
Abstract Background and aims Public perceptions of alcohol and its related harms and policies are shaped by multiple discourses and can influence behaviour and policy support. As part of a FrameWorks‐informed project to test framing approaches to improve public understanding and support for evidence‐based alcohol policies in the UK, this research aimed
Niamh Fitzgerald, Kathryn Angus, Rebecca Howell, Heather Labhart, James Morris, Laura Fenton, Nicholas Woodrow, Maria Castellina, Melissa Oldham, Claire Garnett, John Holmes, Jamie Brown, Rachel O'Donnell   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Water-Pipe Smoking (Baraku) Use among Youths in Thailand [PDF]

, 2014
The water-pipe (Baraku) is now a popular tobacco smoking technique among youths worldwide. It is becoming popular in Thailand as well. Many Thai youths know about and use water-pipe smoking in their daily lives. The motivations of using waterpipe smoking
Setchoduk, Kanyaphat
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Towards the implementation of cannabis‐focused apps in early intervention services for psychosis: A qualitative investigation of patient and clinician perspectives

Addiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Background and aims Cannabis use is highly prevalent among young adults with first‐episode psychosis (FEP) and is associated with poorer clinical and functional outcomes. Mobile health interventions may help address structural barriers to delivering cannabis‐focused psychosocial interventions within early intervention services (EIS), yet ...
Selim Abou‐Rahal, Alexis Doucet, Pamela Lachance‐Touchette, Amal Abdel‐Baki, Stephanie Coronado‐Montoya, José Côté, Ovidiu Tatar, Philip G. Tibbo, Didier Jutras‐Aswad   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Large probe arrays for measuring mean and time dependent local oil volume fraction and local oil velocity component distributions in inclined oil-in-water flows [PDF]

, 2013
Arrays of dual-sensor and four-sensor needle conductance probes have been used to measure the mean and time dependent local properties of upward inclined, bubbly oil-in-water flows (also known as dispersed oil-in-water flows) in a 153mm diameter pipe ...
Lucas, Gary, Zhao, X.
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