Qalyan, Narghile, Shisha and Pregnant Women’s Exposure to Passive Smoking in Iran
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Qalyan, Narghile, Shisha and pregnant women's exposure to passive smoking in Iran.
I read Mirahmadizadeh and Nakhaee’s paper [1] on the prevalence of smoking qalyân/narghile (the local water pipe) among pregnant women in Southern Iran with great interest. While I share their concern over the prevalence, they should have cited and discussed a relevant study by Mansour Sulaiman from Saudi Arabia [2] , noting that although prenatal exposure to shisha smoke in animals lowered the...
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عنوان ژورنال: Medical Principles and Practice
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1423-0151,1011-7571
DOI: 10.1159/000226301