The Open General & Internal Medicine Journal

2009, 3 : 31-33
Published online 2009 March 18. DOI: 10.2174/1874076600903010031
Publisher ID: TOGMJ-3-31

Is Medical Concern about Hookah Environmental Tobacco Smoke Hazards Warranted

Kamal Chaouachi
this author at the Tobacco Researcher and Consultant, DIU Tabacologie, Paris XI University, France;

ABSTRACT

This paper reviews the present knowledge about the nature of hookah (narghile, shisha) ETS and, in the light of the controversy over the actual health effects of cigarette ETS, concludes that the former should not be hyperbolised in an unscientific way as, unfortunately, a WHO report suggests.

Keywords:

Smoking, tobacco, ETS (environmental tobacco smoke).