Neighbourhood influences on narghile smoking among youth in Beirut

Narghile smoking keeps researchers in Wonderland.

Neighbourhood influences on health.

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Neighbourhood influences on health in Montréal, Canada.

This paper examines neighbourhood effects on health within a large Canadian city--Montréal. Our approach is to consider that individual health outcomes are determined both by individual and neighbourhood characteristics and we consciously take on the problem of neighbourhood definition by developing 'natural' neighbourhoods. Our data come from the Montréal health region sample of the 2000/1 Can...

#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...

Health Assessment Based On the Exposure of Alpha Radioactivity in Narghile Smoking

Introduction: Smokers and non-smokers are at the risk of developing lung cancer when exposed to alpha rays as a result of the relatively low levels of radium and radon that may be present in different tobacco species. There is a great interest in studies and research on the radionuclides in narghile tobacco emitting alpha particles to know the relationship between smok...