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Background: Waterpipe (hookah, shisha, narghile), a worldwide, commonly used method to smoke tobacco, is considered “safe” by its users because the smoke is “filtered” by water before inhalation. Based on the knowledge that lung cells take the brunt of inhaled smoke, we hypothesized that even mild w...
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens 
2025-06-05 | GSE67143 | GEO
Chronic exposure to waterpipe smoke elicits immunomodulatory and carcinogenic effects in the lung
Waterpipe (also called hookah, shisha, or narghile) smoking is a common form of tobacco use in the Middle East. Its use is becoming more prevalent in Western societies, especially among young adults as an alternative form of tobacco use to traditional cigarettes. While the risk to cigarette smoking ...
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens 
2017-06-13 | GSE84101 | GEO
Waterpipe (also called hookah, shisha, or narghile) smoking is a common form of tobacco use in the Middle East. Its use is becoming more prevalent in Western societies, especially among young adults as an alternative form of tobacco use to traditional cigarettes. While the risk to cigarette smoking ...
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens 
2017-06-13 | GSE92661 | GEO
Previous reports showed that cigarette smoke exposed normal-appearing airways in phenotypically lung cancer-free smokers carry alterations that are characteristic of tumors – suggestive of an airway field of injury. Very little is known of the effects of the chronic consumption of other forms of tob...
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens 
2022-07-13 | GSE197653 | GEO
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