ReviewInternational journal of environmental research and public health2009
Hookah (Shisha, Narghile) Smoking and Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS). A critical review of the relevant literature and the public health consequences.
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- The Chronic Effects of Narghile Use on Males' Cardiovascular Response During Exercise: A Systematic Review.American journal of men's healthPooled it
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- Impact of pregnancy and passive smoking on lung function among rural South Indian women.Bioinformation · 2025Article
- Determining the perceived risk of lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (COPD) among hookah users in Iran.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2024Article
- Investigation of the impact of thirdhand e-cigarette exposure on platelet function: A pre-clinical study.Tobacco induced diseases · 2024Article
- A method for cancer elemental risk assessments in hookah: An example in two common types of traditional and flavored tobaccos in Iran.MethodsX · 2023Article
- Knowledge, practices and beliefs of students regarding health effects of shisha use in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: A cross‑sectional study.African journal of thoracic and critical care medicine · 2023Article
- Analysis of heavy metals and PAHs in the waste resulting from hookah consumption: Ahvaz City, Iran.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2022Article
- Prevalence of waterpipe smoking and its associated factors among adolescents aged 12-16 years in 73 countries/territories.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Prevalence and Behavioral-Based Risk Factors (Eye Cosmetic and Tobacco Use) of Symptomatic Dry Eye Disease in Four Middle Eastern Countries: Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Palestine.Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2022Article
- Levels of Chemical Toxicants in Waterpipe Tobacco and Waterpipe Charcoal Solid Waste.Journal of environmental protection · 2021Article
- Aquatic toxicity of waterpipe wastewater chemicals.Environmental research · 2021Article
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- Indoor air pollution (IAP) and pre-existing morbidities among under-5 children in India: are risk factors of coronavirus disease (COVID-19)?Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987) · 2020Article
- Determinants of hookah smoking among men in the coffee houses: an application of socio-ecological approach.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2020Article
- Determination of metals and BTEX in different components of waterpipe: charcoal, tobacco, smoke and water.Journal of environmental health science & engineering · 2020Article
- Short-Term Exposure to Waterpipe/Hookah Smoke Triggers a Hyperactive Platelet Activation State and Increases the Risk of Thrombogenesis.Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology · 2020Article
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Abstract
Hookah (narghile, shisha, "water-pipe") smoking is now seen by public health officials as a global tobacco epidemic. Cigarette Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) is classically understood as a combination of Side-Stream Smoke (SSS) and Exhaled Main-Stream Smoke (EMSS), both diluted and aged. Some of the corresponding cigarette studies have served as the scientific basis for stringent legislation on indoor smoking across the world. Interestingly, one of the distinctive traits of the hookah device is that it generates almost no SSS. Indeed, its ETS is made up almost exclusively by the smoke exhaled by the smoker (EMSS), i.e. which has been filtered by the hookah at the level of the bowl, inside the water, along the hose and then by the smoker's respiratory tract itself. The present paper reviews the sparse and scattered scientific evidence available about hookah EMSS and the corresponding inferences that can be drawn from the composition of cigarette EMSS. The reviewed literature shows that most of hookah ETS is made up of EMSS and that the latter qualitatively differs from MSS. Keeping in mind that the first victim of passive smoking is the active smoker her/himself, the toxicity of hookah ETS for non-smokers should not be overestimated and hyped in an unscientific way.
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