A critique of recent hypotheses on oral (and lung) cancer induced by water pipe (hookah, shisha, narghile) tobacco smoking

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 843-846

  Chaouachi, Kamal ^a   Sajid, Khan Mohammad ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b NISHTAR MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIGARETTE SMOKE; TOBACCO SMOKE;

ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CHEMICAL REACTION; HOOKAH; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INSTRUMENT; LUNG CANCER; LUNG CARCINOGENESIS; MOUTH CANCER; NARGHILE; SHISHA; SMOKING; WATER PIPE;

HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC; SMOKING;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 77951021910     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2009.11.036     Document Type: Article

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