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Increasing hookah use in California.
Hookah use is gaining popularity nationwide. We determined the correlates and trends for hookah use from the California Tobacco Survey. Between 2005 and 2008 hookah use increased more than 40%, and in 2008, 24.5% of young men reported ever using a hookah. Hookah use was more common among the young (18-24 years), the educated, the non-Hispanic Whites, and the cigarette smokers. Hookah use is inc...
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OBJECTIVES Prevalence of hookah use is increasing significantly among adolescents. This study aimed to delineate demographic and socioeconomic correlates of hookah use among high school seniors in the United States. We hypothesized that more impoverished adolescents and those who smoked cigarettes would be more likely to use hookahs. METHODS Data were examined for 5540 high school seniors in ...
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The focus of Project HOOKAH is to improve the processing of the DEA-6 report, a semi-formatted report generated primarily by field agents, as well as legal staff, analysts, and others. DEA-6s are organized into case files, and are composed of multiple sections with varying amounts of formatting. Header fields are normally highly formatted, and indicate the subject, case, date, time, etc. There ...
متن کاملPerceptions of hookah smoking harmfulness: predictors and characteristics among current hookah users
INTRODUCTION Tobacco cigarette smoking a well-known cause of cancer and other diseases. Hookah smoking is another form of tobacco use that has rapidly spread in the United State and Europe. This study assessed beliefs about the harmfulness of smoking hookah. METHODS We surveyed hookah users in all cafes that provided hookah to its customers in downtown San Diego, California and nearby areas. ...
متن کاملHookah smoking and cancer: carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) levels in exclusive/ever hookah smokers
BACKGROUND We have recently published some work on CEA levels in hookah (also called narghile, shisha elsewhere) and cigarette smokers. Hookah smokers had higher levels of CEA than non-smokers although mean levels were low compared to cigarette smokers. However some of them were also users of other tobacco products (cigarettes, bidis, etc.). OBJECTIVES To find serum CEA levels in ever/exclusi...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: British Dental Journal
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0007-0610,1476-5373
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bdj.2009.771