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ReviewTobacco control2015

The allure of the waterpipe: a narrative review of factors affecting the epidemic rise in waterpipe smoking among young persons globally.

E A Akl, K D Ward, D Bteddini, R Khaliel, A C Alexander, T Lotfi, H Alaouie, R A Afifi

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Review in Tobacco control, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 110 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

110 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Interventions for waterpipe smoking cessation.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023
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  4. Interventions for waterpipe smoking cessation.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2015
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  7. Influencing Perceptions of Harm of Waterpipe Tobacco Smoking Among One Member of Couples Who Use Waterpipe.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2022
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  9. Waterpipe Tobacco Warnings: An Experimental Study Among a Nationally Representative Sample of US Young Adults.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2021
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  12. Characterizing Young Adults' Susceptibility to Waterpipe Tobacco Use and Their Reactions to Messages About Product Harms and Addictiveness.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2017
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  13. Hookah Tobacco Smoking During the Transition to College: Prevalence of Other Substance Use and Predictors of Initiation.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2016
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50 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

E A AklDepartment of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.
K D WardSchool of Public Health, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
D BteddiniFaculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.
R KhalielFaculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.
A C AlexanderSchool of Public Health, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
T LotfiFaculty of Medicine, Clinical Research Institute, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.
H AlaouieFaculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.
R A AfifiFaculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveThe objective of this narrative review is to highlight the determinants of the epidemic rise in waterpipe tobacco smoking (WTS) among youth globally. The Ecological Model of Health Promotion (EMHP) was the guiding framework for the review. DATA SOURCES: The following electronic databases were searched: Cochrane library, MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsycINFO, Web of Science and CINAHL Plus with Full Text. Search terms included waterpipe and its many variant terms. STUDY SELECTION: Articles were included if they were published between 1990 and 2014, were in English, were available in full text and included the age group 10-29 years. DATA EXTRACTION: Articles which analysed determinants of WTS at any of the levels of the EMHP were retained regardless of methodological rigour: 131 articles are included. Articles were coded in a standard template that abstracted methods as well as results. DATA SYNTHESIS: The review found that methodologies used to assess determinants of WTS among youth were often conventional and lacked rigor: 3/4 of the studies were cross-sectional surveys and most enrolled non-representative samples. Within the framework, the review identified determinants of WTS at the intrapersonal, interpersonal, organisational, community and policy levels.

conclusionsThe review suggests potential interventions to control WTS among youth, with emphasis on creative utilisation of social media, and tobacco control policies that include the specificities of WTS. The review further suggests the need for rigorous qualitative work to better contextualise determinants, and prospective observational and experimental studies that track and manipulate them to assess their viability as intervention targets.

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Attitude to HealthAdolescentAdultChildHealth BehaviorHumansParent-Child RelationsPeer GroupSmokingSmoking CessationSmoking PreventionTobacco Use DisorderWaterYoung AdultWaterGlobal healthMediaNon-cigarette tobacco productsPackaging and LabellingPrevention

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