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Hookah, chillum smoking more toxic than cigarette: Study
JAIPUR: Traditional hookah and chillum are more injurious to health than cigarette, a study has said.
The study underlines that the old mode of smoking is much more toxic than cigarette smoke as carbon monoxide (CO) level is higher in it, the study conducted by a group of pulmonary doctors of the SMS Hospital Medical College and the Asthma Bhawan here said.
The study assumes significance in the wake of ongoing debates on the ill effects of smoking and the countrywide ban on lighting up the rolled tobacco at public places, which came into force on Thursday.
Professor of medicine Virendra Singh, who was a part of the study claims that the traditional smoking ways can be fatal.
OTC calls for cigarette price hike: The Office of Tobacco Control has called for a price increase on cigarettes
The Office of Tobacco Control (OTC) has called for an increase in the cost of cigarettes by a minimum of ?1, with a corresponding increase on roll-your-own tobacco.
The OTC has made the call to Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan, in their pre-budget submission. The OTC also recommended a VAT reduction for nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) products, and the creation of a dedicated fund for health promotion.
A significant price increase, supported by well funded cessation services and information campaigns, as well as more affordable NRT products, will impact smoking prevalence significantly in years to come, said Éamonn Rossi, OTC Chief Executive.
Potential smoking ban in restaurants triggers debate
Several restaurants in Amman said Thursday a call by the Health Ministry to ban smoking will be difficult to implement.
The ministry has urged restaurants to voluntarily prevent smoking in line with the recently endorsed Public Health Law.
A statement by the ministry this week said the health authorities may, if the move proves futile, declare restaurants as public places, which means they will be subject to the provisions of the Public Health Law.
The legislation has been amended to prohibit smoking in public and private institutions and all public facilities. . . .
The law also stipulates that any person who is caught smoking at a public place is subject to a penalty of imprisonment
Tempe revokes permit to allow hookah-pipe smoking
The saying "Put that in your pipe and smoke it" might hold new meaning for HB Tobacco owner Anis Ben Harzallah after Thursday's Tempe City Council meeting.
The council revoked Harzallah's permit to allow hookah-pipe smoking at his business despite his having previously won two appeals launched by residents in Tempe's Date Palm Manor neighborhood. . . .
Steve Stewart, Date Palm Neighborhood Association chairman, called the initial decision to allow a Hookah lounge at Broadway Road and Mill Avenue near Tempe High School immoral.
"Is revenue more important than moral intent?" Stewart asked the council. "(We say) we're against the sale of tobacco . . . for our kids. But guess what-here's another hookah lounge."
Boston U. Responds To Proposed Tobacco Ban
An unprecedented proposal targeting smoking on college campuses could become law as early as November, after the Boston Public Health Commission voted unanimously Thursday to ban tobacco sales in certain areas.
The proposal, which would also forbid tobacco sales at pharmacies, and possibly hookah bars, will discourage smoking by making tobacco products harder to buy, BPHC Community Initiatives Bureau Director Roger Swartz said . . .
The regulations, if approved by City Hall this winter, would also improve the colleges' reputations by promoting healthier choices among students, he added. . . .
"We make [tobacco] products available for the convenience of customers, but do not advertise them or post marketing signs that would encourage sales," DeAngelis said. "A percentage of CVS customers voluntarily choose to use tobacco products, and they are legal for adults to use."
Boston University public health professor Michael Siegel said the regulations, if enacted, would likely affect pharmacies and campus convenience stores more than the citizens the ban intends to protect. Smokers will simply travel farther to buy cigarettes, he said. . . .
Though Siegel said Boston health care and educational institutions should promote good health, he said he does not believe it is the local government's responsibility to enforce these private organizations' own values.
"Regulators feel that somehow it's inconsistent with the mission of an educational or health care institute to be selling cigarettes," Siegel said. "While I agree with that idea, I just don't think that it's really the role of government to regulate whether stores are acting in a way that's consistent with their mission."
Siegel said there are more effective ways to improve public health and deter smoking, like aggressive anti-smoking campaigns to counter tobacco companies' own marketing.
KARACHI: 'Shisha as harmful as cigarette smoking'
Unaware of the fact that shisha, or water-pipe smoking, is just as harmful as cigarette smoking, the city?s youth, particularly university-level students, are getting hooked to these hookahs and that too with parental approval, reveals a study.
The study, titled ?Knowledge, attitudes and practice of university students regarding water-pipe smoking in Pakistan,? was jointly carried out by the Aga Khan University Hospital?s department of pulmonary and critical care medicine and the Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS).
The findings of the study have also been printed in this month?s issue of The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease.
Pitt study shows more than 40 percent of college kids use hookahs
University of Pittsburgh students weren't surprised that a study found more than two in five college students have smoked tobacco from water pipes, or hookahs.
"That doesn't sound like an unlikely statistic," said Rob Davide, 18, a Pitt freshman who said he hasn't tried a hookah. "It could even be higher."
Just over 40 percent of the 647 undergraduate and graduate students at a large, undisclosed U.S. university who were surveyed by Pitt's School of Medicine reported having smoked tobacco from a water pipe. That's about a half-percent higher than those who said they had smoked cigarettes.
Hookah as popular as cigarettes: survey
A University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine study shows 265, or 41 percent, out of a group of 647 students at Pitt have smoked tobacco from a hookah, or water pipe, and 173 students -- nearly 88 percent of the 198 people who took part in the centuries-old tradition over the past year -- said they intend to do so again.
The portion of respondents who have smoked cigarettes at least once, 39.6 percent, was virtually the same as hookah smokers.
The study is the first random sample of U.S. university students to address hookah smoking, long practiced in the Middle East, North Africa and Central and South Asia. Participants were invited by e-mail to complete the online hookah use survey. The results are available online in the Annals of Behavioral Medicine at www.springerlink.com.
"I'd say the most surprising (finding) is that the proportion who ever used (hookahs) is every bit as common as cigarette use," . . .
"We don't know much about long-term consequences," Primack said. "Some studies from the Middle East have them associated with various cancers and respiratory diseases, but there's been nothing really substantial (yet)."
Hookahs as harmful as cigarette smoking
University-level students are increasingly getting hooked to shisha, water-pipe smoking, in Karachi unaware of the fact that they are as harmful as cigarette, say researchers.
Conducted by researchers in the Aga Khan University Hospitals department of pulmonary and critical care medicine and their colleagues from the Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS), the study suggests that more and more youngsters are getting hooked to such hookahs with parental approval.
As many as 450 students-268 male and 182 female-took part in the study, published in The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease.
While water-pipe smoking was restricted only to rural areas for decades, the researchers say a number of shisha smoking venues have emerged in major cities of Pakistan in the last few years, and that they are increasingly attracting the youth. . . .
78.5 per cent of the participants claimed that their parents had no problem with this practice, while only 21.1 per cent of the parents approved of cigarette smoking.
So far as the youths knowledge about the health hazards posed by smoking are concerned, it was found that around 17.6 per cent of the participants were unable to identify even a single harmful effect of water-pipe smoking.
Black cloud over hubbly bubblies
SMOKING a hubbly bubbly or tobacco water pipe for one hour is as harmful as smoking up to 200 cigarettes, health experts have warned.
The growing popularity of smoking flavoured tobacco in water pipes, particularly by young people, has prompted the NSW Government to issue its first health warning urging people to quit.
Last week former health minister Reba Meagher said there was a widespread, incorrect belief that smoking water-pipe tobacco, also known as shisha, hookah and argileh, was not as harmful as smoking cigarettes.
"In fact, a one-hour session smoking a water pipe is the equivalent of smoking between 100 and 200 cigarettes," she said.
Ms Meagher said smoking water-pipe tobacco had become increasingly popular in Australia over the past 20 years, particularly among Middle Eastern youth and university students.
Officials OK tobacco ban: Health board gives preliminary approval to new smoking regulations
The city?s public health board gave preliminary approval to several stiff tobacco regulations Thursday, including banning cigarette sales from pharmacies, drugstores and on college campuses, as well as shutting down smoking bars. . . .
health officials are targeting cigar bars and Hookah bars, the latter health officials say are popular among 18- to 24-year-olds. The measure, also approved Thursday, wouldn?t allow new smoking bars to open and would force current ones to close within five years.
But the city can expect resistance from these establishments. Patrick Kelly, an employee at Cigar Masters on Boylston Street, said he?d been on the phone all day with similar establishments to formulate a ?united voice? against the regulations.
UPMC study shows smoking water pipes is popular with college crowd
A University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine study shows 265, or 41 percent, out of a group of 647 students at Pitt have smoked tobacco from a hookah, or water pipe, and 173 students -- nearly 88 percent of the 198 people who took part in the centuries-old tradition over the past year -- said they intend to do so again.
The portion of respondents who have smoked cigarettes at least once, 39.6 percent, was virtually the same as hookah smokers.
The study is the first random sample of U.S. university students to address hookah smoking, long practiced in the Middle East, North Africa and Central and South Asia. Participants were invited by e-mail to complete the online hookah use survey. The results are available online in the Annals of Behavioral Medicine at www.springerlink.com.
"I'd say the most surprising [finding] is that the proportion who ever used [hookahs] is every bit as common as cigarette use," said Dr. Brian Primack, lead author of the study and an assistant professor of medicine and pediatrics at Pitt's medical school.
Perhaps more troublesome, though, was the finding that 35.4 percent of those who had smoked tobacco in a hookah had never smoked a cigarette. . . .
"[Hookahs] are reaching a group of young people who otherwise would have been nicotine- and tobacco-naive. ... We don't really know what the implication of that is. Some people might say that it wouldn't make a difference: Somebody who is exposed to a few water pipe sessions, that might not change their risk of later using tobacco products. But I think there are a lot of researchers who would be concerned and say that even intermittent exposure at this age to nicotine and tobacco will increase their likelihood of becoming addicted to nicotine and continuing to the same."
Study finds hookah smoking popular among college crowd
More than 40 percent of the students at a large northeastern university have smoked tobacco from a hookah, or water pipe, according to a study by University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine researchers now online in the "Annals of Behavioral Medicine."
However, of that group of hookah users, more than one-third had never smoked a cigarette.
"I think that's a key finding. There's an overlap in a lot of people [who have smoked both], but there were over a third of the people smoking water pipes who would otherwise have never touched a cigarette," said Dr. Brian Primack, lead author of the study and an assistant professor of medicine and pediatrics in Pitt's School of Medicine.
". . . [Hookahs] are reaching a group of young people who otherwise would have been nicotine- and tobacco-naive. . . .
"We don't really know what the implication of that is," . . .
I think there are a lot of researchers who would be concerned and say that even intermittent exposure at this age to nicotine and tobacco will increase their likelihood of becoming addicted to nicotine and continuing to use some tobacco product later on."
Hookah smokers told to butt out, too: Muslims view ban as 'taking away our right as a multicultural society'
Bansaid, owner of Ahwaz Hookah House on West Georgia Street, was told to shut his business Sunday because he was violating the city's anti-smoking bylaw.
He's choosing to stand his ground.
Bansaid opened for business Sunday and vowed to stay open "today, tomorrow and into the distant future," despite the threat of fines and forced closure. . . .
"It doesn't make sense to me," said Bansaid, who switched some time ago from tobacco to herbal products in the hookah pipes at his lounge.
"It has no tobacco. No nicotine. No tar. Nothing. It's made of red beet."
For Bansaid, the whole idea of a hookah lounge is to provide a social setting for Muslims, who may not drink.
Shisha smoking will be strictly regulated
The regulations governing shisha-serving outlets will be strictly implemented in the next few months, but the municipal authorities in Dubai have not banned smoking of shisha during the holy month of Ramadan.
This was stated by Redha Hassan Salman, Director of Public Health and Safety Department in Dubai Municipality, after reports of a "ban on shisha" appeared in a section of the media.
"Shisha smoking in public places will be strictly regulated, and the cafes found not complying with the municipality rules will be soon ordered closed. The programme that we launched in November 2007 is to gradually regulate shisha smoking, and we have not initiated any ban on shisha outlets," Salman told Khaleej Times.
"We have also devised a new strategy to regulate the setting up of Ramadan tents where shisha is served. Only 4-star and 5-star restaurants will be allowed to set up tents and the activities conducted in the tent will be monitored," he pointed out. . . .
SHISHA REGULATIONS
Shisha outlets must be enclosed, and with proper ventilation system
Shisha outlets must display a cautionary notice prohibiting the entry of people below the age of 20
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I have just received my Leila and just thought id tell you what i thought...
I am a relative novice when its comes to hookah's, having previously owned just one before which i picked up on a recent holiday to Egypt.
Having had an accident with that one i needed another and this grabbed my eye!! I didnt buy it as a 'travel' hookah although this will come in handy!!
I bought it due to its looks, and to be different! First thing to note is that its quite heavy and very well built.
Smoking wise it seems to smoke just as well as my old bigger one and only uses 1/4 to a 1/3 of a coal at at time. (this is important as the stem is plastic so cant get too hot, although this doesnt affect the smoking pleasure!)
Obviously the blue led light underneath makes the pipe look great in action and with the screw top over the coal there is no risk to carrying the thing around the house if you so wish!! Or even, it is supposed to fit in some of the bigger drinks holders in your cars (not that i recommend this ; )!!)
Overall i would recommend this to anyone, some people might not want a modern looking hookah and might prefer the beauty of a more tradional one, but if you do want to be a bit different and would like the option of been able to travel around with your hookah then this is for you!!
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