ReviewTobacco control2015
Waterpipe tobacco smoking legislation and policy enactment: a global analysis.
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61 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Preventing and controlling water pipe smoking: a systematic review of management interventions.BMC public health · 2021Pooled it
- Price elasticity of demand of non-cigarette tobacco products: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Tobacco control · 2018Pooled it
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- Interventions for waterpipe tobacco smoking prevention and cessation: a systematic review.Scientific reports · 2016Pooled it
- Interventions for waterpipe smoking cessation.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2015Pooled it
- Waterpipe Size Matters: The Effect of Waterpipe Size on Toxicant Exposures and Subjective Experiences.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2025Trial
- Waterpipe Smoking Among Japanese Teens and Young Adults: an Emerging Public Health Concern.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2026Article
- Indoor Air Pollutants of PM2.5, Carbon Monoxide, Nicotine, and Carcinogens in Waterpipe Bars.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2026Article
- Evaluating MIR and NIR Spectroscopy Coupled with Multivariate Analysis for Detection and Quantification of Additives in Tobacco Products.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The association between nicotine stomatitis and waterpipe smoking.Tobacco induced diseases · 2024Article
- Socioeconomic and environmental factors associated with waterpipe tobacco smoking among Iranian adults: a PERSIAN cohort-based cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Monitoring and Combating Waterpipe Tobacco Smoking Through Surveillance and Taxation.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2023Article
- Chronic Exposure to Waterpipe Smoke Elicits Immunomodulatory and Carcinogenic Effects in the Lung.Cancer prevention research (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2022Observational
- Waterpipe smoking: Results from a population-based study in Qatar.Tobacco induced diseases · 2022Article
- Sociocultural factors contributing to waterpipe tobacco smoking among adolescents and young adult women: a qualitative study in Iran.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2021Article
- A Group-Based Modeling Approach to Identify Developmental Trajectories of Nicotine Dependence Among Lebanese Adolescents Waterpipe Smokers.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2021Article
- Waterpipe smoking: a review of pulmonary and health effects.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2021Review
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- Use of waterpipes and other substances in adolescents: Prevalence and potential associations with mental and behavioral well-being, a cross-sectional study.Tobacco prevention & cessation · 2021Article
- Waterpipe Warning Placement and Risk Perceptions: An Eye Tracking Study.American journal of health behavior · 2021Article
1 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
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 2014. STUDY SELECTION: (1) Countries containing legislative reviews, written by legal experts, were included. Countries prohibiting tobacco sales were excluded. (2) News articles discussing aspects of the WHO FCTC were included. News articles related to electronic-waterpipe, crime, smuggling, opinion pieces or brief mentions of WTS were excluded. DATA ABSTRACTION: (1) Two reviewers independently abstracted the definition of "tobacco product" and/or "smoking". Four tobacco control domains (smokefree law, misleading descriptors, health warning labels and advertising/promotion/sponsorship) were assigned one of four categories based on the degree to which WTS had specific legislation. (2) Two investigators independently assigned at least one theme and associated subtheme to each news article. DATA SYNTHESIS: (1) Reviewed legislations of 62 countries showed that most do not address WTS regulation but instead rely on generic tobacco/smoking definitions to cover all tobacco products. Where WTS was specifically addressed, no additional legislative guidance accounted for the unique way it is smoked, except for in one country specifying health warnings on waterpipe apparatuses (2) News articles mainly reported on noncompliance with public smoking bans, especially in India, Pakistan and the UK.
conclusionsA regulatory framework evaluated for effectiveness and tailored for the specificities of WTS needs to be developed.
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