Public health intervention for narghile (hookah, shisha) use requires a radical critique of the related “standardised” smoking machine
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Public Health
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0943-1853,1613-2238
DOI: 10.1007/s10389-009-0272-7