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[Ohio] Alternative tobacco use up in teenagers

Instead of smoking cigarettes, some students are chewing tobacco, or smoking cigars or flavored tobacco from a hookah, according to the American Lung Association in Ohio. But these students who are expanding their tobacco use aren't just high school stu
Willoughby (OH) News-Herald
added Apr 29, 2013 14:34
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[Florida] SWAN: House bans bongs, what are they smoking?

Store owners say the bongs and pipes are for tobacco. The number of hookah bars selling flavored tobacco ... This is Tallahassee. Medical marijuana is insane. A bong ban is wise policy. Hopefully, voters next year will show lawmakers the smart way forw
Hernando (FL) Today
added Apr 28, 2013 19:28
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[UK] Casablanca Café in Hendon fined for allowing customers to smoke shisha in cellar

Meysan Ebra has been ordered to pay a fine and costs totalling £1,347.58 for allowing customers to smoke shisha pipes in a downstairs cellar at Casablanca Café in Queen's Road. The prosecution was brought after Barnet Borough Council’s environmental hea
Hendon Times (uk)
added Apr 25, 2013 12:32
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CO Exposure and Puff Topography are Associated With Lebanese Waterpipe Dependence Scale Score

The puff topography of waterpipe tobacco smokers can be predicted by LWDS-11 score, with those scoring higher taking longer duration and lower velocity puffs at a higher frequency. These behavioral differences may underlie the 40% greater CO exposure obse
Nicotine and Tobacco Research
added Apr 24, 2013 23:17
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9 ways smoking a hookah can spread herpes and cause cancer

Rolling Out - Digital Urban Voice
added Apr 23, 2013 06:50
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Comparison of Nicotine and Carcinogen Exposure with Water pipe and Cigarette Smoking

A different pattern of carcinogen exposure might result in a different cancer risk profile between cigarette and water pipe smoking. Of particular concern is the risk of leukemia related to high levels of benzene exposure with water pipe use. Impact Smok
Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention
added Apr 22, 2013 13:35
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[California] Study: Hookah no safer than cigarettes, just differently dangerous

more than 40% of college students had used a hookah, and many of them appeared to believe it was safer than cigarette smoking. Doctors are trying to dissuade folks of that notion. "The tobacco is no less toxic in a hookah pipe," according to the Mayo Cli
Los Angeles Times
added Apr 20, 2013 17:04
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Water-pipe smoking may not be a safe alternative to cigarette smoking

Smoking tobacco in a water pipe resulted in a different pattern of exposure to toxic substances and may result in a cancer risk profile that is different from that of cigarette smoking, according to data published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prev
EurekAlert
added Apr 19, 2013 13:54
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More Carbon Monoxide, Benzene In Hookah Smoke Than Cigarettes, Study Says

But a new study from the University of California, San Francisco reports that hookah smoke contains a different - but still harmful - cocktail of chemicals that can lead to health problems.
Nature World News
added Apr 18, 2013 20:40
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Smoking from Hookah Not a Harmless Alternative to Cigarettes

Smoking tobacco through a hookah is a pastime gaining popularity among the college crowd ... In a new study at UC San Francisco, researchers measuring chemicals in the blood and urine concluded that hookah smoke contains a different – but still harmful –
University of California at San Francisco (UCSF)
added Apr 18, 2013 16:39
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