The tobacco epidemic in Syria

Estimating the beginning of the waterpipe epidemic in Syria

BACKGROUND Waterpipe smoking is becoming a global public health problem, especially in the Eastern Mediterranean region (EMR). METHODS We try in this study, which is a cross sectional survey among a representative sample of waterpipe smokers in cafes/restaurants in Aleppo-Syria, to assess the time period for the beginning of this new smoking hype. We recruited 268 waterpipe smokers (161 men, ...

A Sketch of the Recent Cholera Epidemic in Syria

were reported to have occurred in Hamah, 35 deg. lat. N., long. 37 deg. E.?a town of 40,000 inhabitants, situated on the banks of the Orontes, and lying on the high road between Aleppo and Damascus. How the disease should have appeared in so inland a place without its being known to exist in any part of Turkey or any of the provinces contiguous to it was a mystery, and the first reports were dis-

The tobacco epidemic: lessons from history.

Tobacco has caused the greatest epidemic of the twentieth century, which is beginning to wane in the United States, but is still growing in much of the world. The epidemic developed as a result of innovations in the tobacco industry and larger cultural changes over the 75 years prior to the introduction of Camel cigarettes in 1913. Factors that set the stage for the epidemic include the develop...

Tobacco: the epidemic we could all avoid.

Syria in Iranian Press

The main inquiry of this article is how differently the news of uprisings in Bahrain, Yemen and Syria has been covered in conservative and reformist press. In the section of theories, a review of agenda-setting and social constructionism has been offered and using theory of constructivism the role of values, identity and norms in social uprisings has been studied. In this article, ten newspaper...