Advisory note: Waterpipe tobacco smoking: 2nd edition: Health effects, research needs and recommended actions for regulators
Publication date: 2015
This advisory note addresses growing concern about the increasing prevalence and potential health effects of tobacco smoking with waterpipes. This note provides a more thorough understanding of the health effects of waterpipe smoking for WHO Member States and research agencies. The note is issued in response to the request made to World Health Organization by the Conference of the Parties to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control at its sixth session, in Moscow, Russian Federation, in October 2014.
Summary report on the Expert workshop to prepare a new edition of the WHO advisory note on waterpipe tobacco smoking
Publication date: 2014
The WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean organized an expert workshop to prepare new edition of the WHO advisory note on waterpipe tobacco smoking that was held in Cairo, Egypt from 30 to 31 March 2014. The workshop addressed the waterpipe epidemic from three perspectives: the scientific evidence; the current situation and identified gaps; and the way forward.
Tobacco use in shisha: Studies on waterpipe smoking in Egypt
Publication date: 2006
Use of the waterpipe, or shisha, has traditionally been considered to be less harmful and less addictive than cigarettes. We know now that this is not true. These studies show the reality behind this false premise. The waterpipe is as harmful and as addictive as cigarettes. The WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean hope to convey the message to decision makers, health professionals and the public in the Region that use of the waterpipe is indeed harmful.
TobReg advisory note on waterpipe tobacco smoking: Health effects, research needs and recommended actions by regulators
Publication date: 2005
This advisory note by The Tobacco Free Initiative analyses waterpipe tobacco smoking. This note addresses the increasing prevalence and potential health effects of waterpipes tobacco smoking. This note also addresses the rising increasing prevalence and potential health effects of tobacco smoking using waterpipes, a practice that dates back to centuries ago in Africa and Asia. The note provides guidance to WHO Member States and other research agencies interested in a more thorough understanding of the health effects of waterpipe smoking.