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Water-pipe (narguile) smokers in Lebanon: a pilot study 2009
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East Mediterr Health J
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East.Mediterr.Health J.
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15
Issue
2
Start Page
432
Other Pages
42
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ID: 19554991
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en
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We carried out a comparative study to assess the demographic and social characteristics of water pipe (WP) smokers, the association with cigarette smoking and chronic respiratory diseases and the dependence profile on 4 groups: exclusive WP smokers, exclusive cigarette smokers, mixed smokers and absolute non-smokers. Cigarette smoking was statistically significantly higher in WP smokers than non-WP smokers; 36.5% of exclusive WP smokers smoked > or =7 WPs/week. Chronic respiratory disease and chronic bronchitis were reported more frequently in exclusive WP smokers than absolute non-smokers. WP smoking seems to be as great a risk factor as cigarette smoking for chronic respiratory disease.
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Bronchitis, Smoking, Water, Adult, Bronchitis/epidemiology, Bronchitis/etiology, Case-Control Studies, Chi-Square Distribution, Chronic Disease, Comorbidity, Female, Filtration/instrumentation, Health Surveys, Humans, Lebanon/epidemiology, Logistic Models, Male, Middle Aged, Pilot Projects, Risk Factors, Smoking/adverse effects, Smoking/epidemiology, Statistics, Nonparametric, Questionnaires, Tobacco Use Disorder/complications, Tobacco Use Disorder/epidemiology
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http://pesquisa.bvsalud.org/ghl/resource/en/mdl-19554991
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Waked,M., Salameh,P., Aoun,Z.
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