The waterpipe: An emerging global risk for cancer

Cancer Epidemiology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-4

  Maziak, Wasim ^a,b  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Syrian Center for Tobacco Studies   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Hookah; Risk; Waterpipe

Indexed keywords

ACETALDEHYDE; ACROLEIN; ARSENIC; CARBON MONOXIDE; CATECHOL; CHROMIUM; COBALT; CRESOL; FORMALDEHYDE; HYDROQUINONE; LEAD; NICOTINE; PHENOL; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; RESORCINOL; TAR;

BLADDER CANCER; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENICITY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIC; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NASOPHARYNX CANCER; NOTE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMOKING; SOCIAL STATUS; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE; TREND STUDY; WATERPIPE SMOKING;

HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84872129373     PISSN: 18777821     EISSN: 1877783X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.canep.2012.10.013     Document Type: Note

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