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Which Behaviour Change Techniques may help Waterpipe smokers to quit? An expert consensus using a Modified Delphi Technique [PDF]

, 2016
Introduction: Waterpipe smoking is addictive and harmful. The determinants of waterpipe smoking may differ from those of cigarette smoking; therefore, behavioral approaches to support quitting may also differ between these two tobacco products.
Dogar, Omara Fatima, Jawad, Mohammed, Kanaan, Mona, Kellar, Ian, O'Neill, Nancy, Siddiqi, Kamran   +5 more
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Aquatic toxicity of waterpipe wastewater chemicals

Environmental Research, 2021
The recent increase in U.S. popularity and use prevalence of water pipe (WP) tobacco smoking raises concerns about the potential environmental impacts of WP waste disposal and the need for strategies to reduce such impacts. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is required to assess the environmental impacts of its tobacco regulatory actions per ...
Ronald L. Edwards, P. Dilip Venugopal, Jason R. Hsieh   +2 more
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Cigarette and waterpipe smoking among adolescents in Estonia: HBSC survey results, 1994–2006 [PDF]

, 2008
Background Smoking is a major single cause of preventable morbidity and premature mortality. Tobacco use among adolescents is a significant public health problem as smoking behaviour is undeniably established in adolescence. While cigarette smoking among
Kersti Pärna, Janika Usin, Inge Ringmets, M Leinsalu, K Pärna, A Hublet, TL Holmen, BP Zhu, World Health Organization, World Health Organization, K Holm, K Chaouachi, KD Ward, D Jackson, World Health Organization, W Maziak, W Maziak, W Maziak, World Health Organization, World Health Organization, World Health Organization, M Richter, KD Ward   +22 more
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The social patterning of tobacco use among women in Jordan: the protective effect of education on cigarette smoking and the deleterious effect of wealth on cigarette and waterpipe smoking [PDF]

, 2015
Introduction: The presence of social inequalities in tobacco-use has been fully recognized in the international literature. Even though cigarette and waterpipe tobacco smoking (WTS) are prevalent in the Arab region, the literature has not addressed the ...
Abdulrahim, Sawsan, Daouk, Aref, Jawad, Mohammed   +2 more
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Perceived Harms of Waterpipe Tobacco Heating Sources Among Young Adult Waterpipe Tobacco Smokers

Health Education & Behavior, 2020
Background. Waterpipe tobacco smoking is associated with many negative health outcomes due to toxicants produced by heating the tobacco using charcoal or electrical heaters. Little is known about how young adult waterpipe tobacco smokers perceive harms of these heating sources. Aims. To examine young adult waterpipe tobacco smokers’ perceived harms of
Isaac M. Lipkus, Caroline O. Cobb, Thomas Eissenberg   +2 more
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Waterpipe Tobacco Use in the United Kingdom: A Cross-Sectional Study among University Students and Stop Smoking Practitioners.

PLoS ONE, 2016
IntroductionDespite cigarette-like adverse health outcomes associated with waterpipe tobacco smoking and increase in its use among youth, it is a much underexplored research area.
Mohammed Jawad, Elham Choaie, Leonie Brose, Omara Dogar, Aimee Grant, Elizabeth Jenkinson, Andy McEwen, Christopher Millett, Lion Shahab   +8 more
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Predictors of Past Quit Attempts and Length of Abstinence among Waterpipe Smokers in Lebanon [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2018
Introduction: The popularity of waterpipe smoking is dramatically increasing in Lebanon, reaching 36.9%, the highest among countries in the region, with a false belief that waterpipe is less dangerous and toxic compared to cigarettes.
Nelly Layoun, Souheil Hallit, Mirna Waked, Zeina Aoun Bacha, Alain Leveque, Michele Dramaix, Pascale Salameh   +6 more
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Health effects associated with waterpipe smoking [PDF]

Tobacco Control, 2015
It is widely held that waterpipe smoking (WPS) is not associated with health hazards. However, several studies have documented the uptake of several toxicants and carcinogens during WPS that is strongly associated with harmful health effects. This paper reviews the literature on the health effects of WPS.Three databases-PubMed, MEDLINE and EMBASE-were ...
El-Zaatari, Ziad M, Chami, Hassan A, Zaatari, Ghazi S   +2 more
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Interventions for waterpipe smoking cessation

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2015
Waterpipe tobacco smoking is a traditional method of tobacco use, especially in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR), but its use is now spreading worldwide. Recent epidemiological data, for example, show that waterpipe smoking has become the most prevalent tobacco use method among adolescents in the EMR, and the second most prevalent in the US ...
Maziak, W, Jawad, M, Jawad, S, Ward, KD, Eissenberg, T, Asfar, T   +5 more
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Waterpipe tobacco smoking and cigarette equivalence [PDF]

British Journal of General Practice, 2012
The authors of this editorial1 on shisha (waterpipe) guidance tentatively offer 10 cigarettes as equivalent to a shisha session of 45 minutes. In our freely available smoking pack year …
Nigel, Masters, Catherine, Tutt, Nisar, Yaseen   +2 more
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