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ArticleAmerican journal of public health2016

Toward a Regulatory Framework for the Waterpipe.

Ramzi G Salloum, Taghrid Asfar, Wasim Maziak

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Article in American journal of public health, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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30citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

30 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Interventions for waterpipe smoking cessation.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023
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  3. Effects of Pictorial Health Warning Labels on Intention to Quit Waterpipe in Lebanon: A Mediation Analysis.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2024
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  9. "Scary and Effective, Definitely Pushes Me to Quit Smoking": Developing Waterpipe Pictorial Health Warnings Targeting Young Adults in Lebanon.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2022
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  11. 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 · 2021
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  17. Waterpipe smoking: the pressing need for risk communication.Expert review of respiratory medicine · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Ramzi G SalloumRamzi G. Salloum is with the Department of Health Outcomes and Policy and the Institute for Child Health Policy, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville. Taghrid Asfar is with the Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL. Wasim Maziak is with the Department of Epidemiology, Robert Stempel College of Public Health and Social Work, Florida International University, Miami.
Taghrid AsfarRamzi G. Salloum is with the Department of Health Outcomes and Policy and the Institute for Child Health Policy, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville. Taghrid Asfar is with the Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL. Wasim Maziak is with the Department of Epidemiology, Robert Stempel College of Public Health and Social Work, Florida International University, Miami.
Wasim MaziakRamzi G. Salloum is with the Department of Health Outcomes and Policy and the Institute for Child Health Policy, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville. Taghrid Asfar is with the Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL. Wasim Maziak is with the Department of Epidemiology, Robert Stempel College of Public Health and Social Work, Florida International University, Miami.

Funding

Advancing addiction research and capacity to guide tobacco control in the EasternR01DA035160 · NIDA · FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY · PI MAZIAK, WASIM · 2012 to 2017
$1.5M
NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA035160
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Waterpipe smoking has been dramatically increasing among youth worldwide and in the United States. Despite its general association with misperceptions of reduced harm, evidence suggests this is a harmful and dependence-inducing tobacco use method that represents a threat to public health. Waterpipe products continue to be generally unregulated, which likely has contributed to their spread. The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009 granted the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the authority to regulate waterpipe products, and the FDA finalized a rule extending its authority over waterpipe products in May 2016. This critical step in addressing the alarming increase in waterpipe smoking in the United States has created urgency for research to provide the evidence needed for effective regulatory initiatives for waterpipe products. We aim to stimulate such research by providing a framework that addresses the scope of waterpipe products and their unique context and use patterns. The proposed framework identifies regulatory targets for waterpipe product components (i.e., tobacco, charcoal, and device), the waterpipe café setting, and its marketing environment dominated by Internet promotion.

Indexed as

Harm ReductionAdolescentHealth Knowledge, Attitudes, PracticeHumansMarketingPublic HealthSmokingSmoking PreventionTobacco Use DisorderUnited StatesUnited States Food and Drug Administration

Identifiers

PMID27552262
PMCPMC5024375

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