Water pipe smoking: Effects, attitudes and directions

Journal of Smoking Cessation

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 18-25

  Watad, Waseem ^a   Sukhera, Javeed ^b   Shushan, Sagit ^a   Kazlak, Mazen ^a,c   Skinner, Harvey A ^d   Alnueirat, Arafat A ^e   Roth, Yehudah ^a,f  

^a WOLFSON MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c New Dawn Society   (Palestine)

^d York University   (Canada)

^e Department of ENT Royal Medical Services ^*  (Jordan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cessation; Prevention

Indexed keywords

EID: 68549112771     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18342612     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/jsc.4.1.18     Document Type: Review

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