Investigating the transfer rate of waterpipe additives to smoke as an integral part of toxicological risk assessments.

ABSTRACT: Waterpipe, also known as hookah, narghile or narghila, shisha or hubbly bubbly, is a tobacco-smoking device. Waterpipe tobacco is heated and consumed by a process of inhaling tobacco smoke, that bubbles through water before being inhaled. To date, limited studies have examined the transfer of waterpipe additives from tobacco to smoke. This study was designed to investigate the filtration ability of water in the waterpipe's bowl to define exposure to additives in waterpipe smoke, which is an essential requirement to perform toxicological risk assessments of waterpipe additives. Within this study, a standard smoking protocol (ISO 22486) was used to evaluate the transfer of > 40 additives from experimental and commercially available samples. These results are the first to provide such an exte

SUBMITTER: Holt JCM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9301603 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature