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· Health/Science
· Hookahs/Shisha / Water Pipes
non-USA, by Country
· Syria
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BMC Public Health 2004, :32 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-4-32
Jump to full article: BioMed Central (uk), 2004-08-30
Author: Samer Rastam1 , Kenneth D Ward1, 2 , Thomas Eissenberg1, 3 and Wasim Maziak1, 4
Intro: Results
Data indicate that unlike initiation of cigarette smoking, which shows a clear age-related pattern, the nineties was the starting point for most of waterpipe smoking implicating this time period for the beginning of the waterpipe epidemic in Syria.
Conclusion
The introduction of new flavored and aromatic waterpipe tobacco (Maassel), and the proliferation of satellite and electronic media during the nineties may have helped spread the new hype all over the Arab World.
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