Smoking habits in the Middle East and North Africa: results of the BREATHE study

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Respir Med

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106 Suppl 2

S16

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Few recent comparative data exist on smoking habits in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The objective of this analysis was to evaluate smoking patterns in a large general population sample of individuals aged = 40 years in ten countries in the region (Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey and United Arab Emirates), together with Pakistan, using a standardised methodology. A random sample of 457,258 telephone numbers was generated and called. This identified 65,154 eligible subjects, of whom 62,086 agreed to participate. A screening questionnaire was administered to each participant, which included six questions relating to cigarette consumption and waterpipe use. The age- and gender-adjusted proportion of respondents reporting current or past smoking of cigarettes or waterpipes was 31.2% 95% CI: 30.9-31.6%]. This proportion was significantly higher (p

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Khattab,Adel, Javaid,Arshad, Iraqi,Ghali, Alzaabi,Ashraf, Ben Kheder, Ali, Koniski,Marie-Louise, Shahrour,Naem, Taright,Samya, Idrees,Magdy, Polatli,Mehmet, Rashid,Nauman, El Hasnaoui, Abdelkader

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2012