Tobacco Control 2005;14:363-364
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Lebanon: water pipe line to youth
RIMA AFIFI SOWEID
Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, Lebanon; ra15@aub.edu.lb
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Most Arab countries, like many other low to middle income nations, are still in the relatively early stages of the cigarette tobacco epidemic. Lebanon has the dubious position among Arab countries of being the only one with relatively equal rates of cigarette smoking among men and women. The water pipe is a traditional form of tobacco smoked in Arab countries, including Lebanon. Recently, trends have shifted between tobacco types, and water pipe smoking is becoming the preference for young people and women specifically, ousting the once more popular cigarette. As an indicator of its popularity, thriving new delivery services have appeared, linked to mobile phones. By using their phones in accordance with prescribed directions, customers can even specify the number and flavour of pipes they want. According to how many times they call the sales line, the appropriate water pipe(s) will be delivered to their home for the equivalent of . . . [Full text of this article]
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