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• AUB team conduct research to help snuff out nargileh and cigarette smoking 

A team of AUB faculty members and researchers have been all fired up about the pioneering studies they have been conducting to help snuff out the unhealthy habit of smoking in Lebanon.

In particular, the team has spearheaded studies on the health effects and mechanism of nargileh smoking, and on the importance of warning labels on water-pipe tobacco.

Under the umbrella of AUB's Tobacco Control Research Group, which was established in 1999, academics from a variety of disciplines, including public health, engineering, medicine, and chemistry, have been producing top-notch research material to help policy-makers in Lebanon enhance the effectiveness of their policies on tobacco control.

"Through our research projects, we hope to help policy-makers identify and overcome local barriers to implementing non-smoking policies," said Assistant Research Professor Rima Nakkash from the Department of Public Health and a member of the group. "We have now compiled enough research data to allow us to move into disseminating information and raising awareness as well as policy advocacy."

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