INTRODUCTION Electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS), which can be as also called “personal vaporizer”, “vape pen”, “e-waterpipe”, or “e-cigarette”, have become increasingly popular in recent years (1). The supporters of ENDS argue that the users are exposed to lesser chemicals, and these systems help quit smoking, and thus, ENDSs are safer than cigarettes (2). E-cigarette is a product that...

BACKGROUND Given the increasing evidence of its negative health effects, including contributions to both infectious and chronic diseases, waterpipe tobacco smoking raises public health concerns beyond even those presented by traditional smoking. METHODS Identification of Clean Indoor Air Acts (CIAAs) from each of the 50 United States and District of Columbia were retrieved and examined for in...

BACKGROUND Little is known about the knowledge and attitudes towards tobacco use among medical students in Canada. Our objectives were to estimate the prevalence of tobacco use among medical students, assess their perceived level of education about tobacco addiction management and their preparedness to address tobacco use with their future patients. METHODS A cross-sectional online survey was...

www.thelancet.com Published online January 20, 2014 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(13)62381-8 1 Smoking rates in the Arab world are some of the highest worldwide. The epidemic is characterised by high and increasing rates of smoking in men and a dramatic reemergence of waterpipe smoking, especially in young people (aged 13–24 years) and women. Although 19 of the 22 Arab countries have rat...

inhaled; hence the astonishing volume produced in each puff.(2) This last item, related to the relationship between the assimilation of nicotine and the volume of inhaled smoke is quoted in the last paragraph of that topic in the article in question. However, in the same passage, we read “the water used in the narghile absorbs some of the nicotine (approximately 5%), narghile smokers are nevert...

OBJECTIVE (1) To review how current global tobacco control policies address regulation of waterpipe tobacco smoking (WTS). (2) To identify features associated with enactment and enforcement of WTS legislation. DATA SOURCES (1) Legislations compiled by Tobacco Control Laws (www.tobaccocontrollaws.org). (2) Weekly news articles by 'Google Alerts' (www.google.com/alerts) from July 2013 to August...