Health warning labelling practices on narghile (shisha, hookah) waterpipe tobacco products and related accessories

Tobacco Control

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 235-239

  Nakkash, Rima ^a   Khalil, Joanna ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EXPOSURE; HEALTH; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PACKAGING; SMOKING;

HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; PRODUCT LABELING; SMOKING; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 77955236266     PISSN: 09644563     EISSN: 14683318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/tc.2009.031773     Document Type: Article

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