BACKGROUND During the last two decades, waterpipe tobacco smoking (WTS), also known as hookah, witnessed a global increase in use, especially among youth. Little information is known about the burden of WTS among Palestinian youth. A cross-sectional study was conducted to estimate the prevalence of WTS and cigarette smoking and explore the associated factors among a sample of Palestinian univer...

BACKGROUND Given the increasing evidence of its negative health effects, including contributions to both infectious and chronic diseases, waterpipe tobacco smoking raises public health concerns beyond even those presented by traditional smoking. METHODS Identification of Clean Indoor Air Acts (CIAAs) from each of the 50 United States and District of Columbia were retrieved and examined for in...

Background Waterpipe smoking is a growing public health threat worldwide. The aim of this study was to assess waterpipe smoking prevalence and its associated factors among Iranian adults. Methods This cross-sectional study was conducted in Kerman, Iran, recruiting 1090 adult participants using multistage sampling in 2016. A self-reported researcher-designed questionnaire was used. The socio-d...

The growing trend of waterpipe smoking worldwide is supporting the need to investigate the health effects of this form of tobacco use. While a number of studies have begun bridging the knowledge gap, few have attempted to quantify the concentration of toxic and essential metals smokers are exposed to. This study aims to determine the amount of Bi, Cr, Cu, Fe, Mg, Mn, Mo, Ni, Pb and V smokers ar...

Article Tables Supplemental Content References Most tobacco use begins during youth and young adulthood.1 Recent declines in prevalence of cigarette smoking among youth have coincided with increased use of e-cigarettes and hookahs.2 Although flavors other than menthol are prohibited in cigarettes in the United States,3 flavored noncigarette tobacco products are widely available and may appeal t...

CONTEXT Cigarette smoking has declined over the last years in modern countries. On the contrary, waterpipe smoking has increased, especially among young people visiting waterpipe bars. Unfortunately, most waterpipe smokers seem to know little about the possible cardiovascular and other health consequences of waterpipe smoking. OBJECTIVE To describe by narrative literature review the known adv...

Waterpipe smoking has been described as "the second global tobacco epidemic since the cigarette." Both Middle Eastern ethnicity and having a friend of Middle Eastern ethnicity have been reported as significant predictors of waterpipe smoking. Addressing waterpipe smoking in this ethnic minority is essential to controlling this growing epidemic in the US. We investigated the predictors of an int...

The lack of scientific evidence on the constituents, properties, and health effects of second-hand waterpipe smoke has fueled controversy over whether public smoking bans should include the waterpipe. The purpose of this study was to investigate and compare emissions of ultrafine particles (UFP, <100 nm), carcinogenic polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), volatile aldehydes, and carbon monoxide (CO)...