Tobacco use by university students, Lebanon, 2001

Tamim, Hani; Terro, Abdallah; Kassem, Hania; Ghazi, Adline; Khamis, Tarek Abou; Hay, Maher M. Abdul; Musharrafıeh, Umayya

doi:10.1046/j.1360-0443.2003.00413.x

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“…Other factors that attract WP smokers, especially adolescents, are its aromatic and condensed smoke, attractive pipe design, availability, inexpensive tobacco, and social acceptance because of traditional associations and it being less stigmatized than cigarette smoking [22]. WP smoking is a new challenge for global public health efforts [23], and recent studies have shown that WP smoke is more harmful than cigarette smoke, because one session of WP smoking expose it's users to a larger amount of smoke and higher level of tobacco toxicants such as tar, carbon monoxide, nicotine, and arsenic compared with one cigarette [24][25][26][27][28][29].WP smoking is considered to be associated with lung cancer, esophageal cancer, low birth weight, periodontal diseases, and pulmonary dysfunction [30].…”

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The Prevalence, Attitudes, and Correlates of Waterpipe Smoking Among High School Students in Iran: a Cross-Sectional Study

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Background: Waterpipe (WP) smoking is a growing public health concern. However there is little information concerning the prevalence, knowledge, attitudes and cessation of WP smoking among high school students in Iran.Purpose: To determine the correlates of WP smoking among 15-17 year-old high school students in Iran.Methods: Data were collected using the Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS), a selfadministrated questionnaire distributed to a representative sample of high school students aged 15-17 in the city of Tabriz. Current WP smoking was defined as past-30 day use and ever WP smoking was defined as at least one or two lifetime puffs. Differences in WP use, knowledge and attitudes were analyzed with Chi square and Fisher exact tests. Binary logistic regression estimated the association between relevant independent variables (e.g. age) and the dependent variables (current/ever WP smoking).

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The Prevalence, Attitudes, and Correlates of Waterpipe Smoking Among High School Students in Iran: a Cross-Sectional Study

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“…According to Poyrazoglu et al (2010), residence, economic status of the family, and with whom students live have no significant effect on the prevalence rate. In contrast, Tamim et al (2003) and Anjum et al (2008) reported that the highest percentage of shisha smoking occurred among college students in a higher socioeconomic group.…”

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Shisha Smoking and Associated Factors among Medical Students in Malaysia

Al-Naggar¹,

Bobryshev²

2012

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

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“…The popularity of the narghile waterpipe, also referred to as hookah, shisha or hubble-bubble has increased tremendously during the past few decades (Tamim et al, 2003;Akl, 2011) and has spread beyond the bounds of Arab countries to other parts of the world, including Europe and America Jarrett et al, 2012;Shihadeh et al, 2012).…”

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Fallacies about Water Pipe Use in Turksih University Students - What Might Be the Consequences?

Alvur¹,

Çınar²,

Akduran³

et al. 2014

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

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Background: The popularity of the narghile waterpipe, also referred to as hookah, shisha or hubble-bubble has increased tremendously during the past few decades. The aim of this study was to expose perception of narghile among a representative sample of university students in Sakarya University campus. Materials and Methods: Written approval was taken from the local education authority. An anonymous questionnaire which was prepared by the investigators and contained 17 questions was administered. Nine of the questions were related to socio-demographic characteristics and eight were related to the students harm perceptions about waterpipe. A total of 1,320 questionnaries were received and after preliminary evaluation 1,255 (95.7%) were found to be suitable for evaluation. The data was evaluated in SPSS program by using percentages and averages. Results: The mean±SD age of the students was 20.8±2.29 years (min 18, max 32). There were 864 (68.8%) females and 391 (31.2%) males. A total of 6.3 % of the students (n=79) believed that waterpipe is not harmful because its smoke does not burn the lungs. Almost one-third (n=318) think that the carcinogenic chemicals are filtered while waterpipe smoke passes from the water; 12.1 % of the students (n=152) checked "true" for the statement of "waterpipe smoke contains no nicotine". It is seen that 14.0 % of the students (n=176) think waterpipe with fruit/ aroma is healthier than plain waterpipe. Conclusions: As a result of this study, it is found out that a substantial number of university students have false beliefs on harmful effects of waterpipe smoking.

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Tobacco use by university students, Lebanon, 2001

Abstract: The authors advocate a collaborative effort to alleviate the consequences of smoking among university students.

Cited by 141 publications

References 18 publications

The Prevalence, Attitudes, and Correlates of Waterpipe Smoking Among High School Students in Iran: a Cross-Sectional Study

The Prevalence, Attitudes, and Correlates of Waterpipe Smoking Among High School Students in Iran: a Cross-Sectional Study

Shisha Smoking and Associated Factors among Medical Students in Malaysia

Fallacies about Water Pipe Use in Turksih University Students - What Might Be the Consequences?

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