An evidence based public campaign against waterpipe / hookah smoking in Turkey

#Hookah, #Shisha, #Narghile: The Portrayal of #Waterpipe Smoking on Instagram

Background: In the last 25 years, rates of waterpipe tobacco smoking have sharply increased in the United States and other Western countries. At the same time, social media platforms such as Instagram have become a popular way to portray content related to waterpipe smoking. Thus, public health researchers have become interested in the potential relationship between the portrayal of waterpipe s...

Update for Nurse Anesthetists Tobacco Smoking Using a Waterpipe (Hookah): What You Need to Know

Objectives At the completion of this course, the learner should be able to: 1. Describe a waterpipe (hookah) that is used to smoke tobacco. 2. Discuss the toxicants in waterpipe smoke. 3. Discuss the toxicants that can be found in waterpipe smokers. 4. Identify 3 potential health risks of waterpipe tobacco smoking. 5. Describe why a preoperative carboxyhemoglobin test might be indicated in a pa...

Waterpipe smoking (shisha) in England The public health challenge

Waterpipe smoking in Kuwait.

A nonrandom sampIe of 2972 Kuwaitis answered a questionnaire about smoking behaviour and beliefs. More than one-third (35%) were nonsmokers, 45% smoked only the waterpipe, 12% only cigarettes and 8% both waterpipe and cigarettes. Compared with cigarette smokers, waterpipe smokers were more likely to be female and to be unskilled manual workers than professionals or students. Waterpipe smokers s...

Waterpipe tobacco smoking impact on public health: implications for policy

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...