To those who choose to sell these illegal products not only to adults, but to our youth, hear me now: We will continue to investigate and hold you accountable to the fullest extent of the law.
HMGB1, high-mobility group box 1
All the available scientific evidence points in the same direction: that regularly using a water pipe will very likely take a person down the same vicious road of dependence and disease suffered by cigarette smokers. Experts at the Abu Dhabi conference agreed that banning water pipe smoking at this stage would be extremely difficult given its increasing demand, but called for more regulation similar to tobacco smoking
Clinical characteristics obtained included age, sex, Elixhauser comorbidity index (ECI), diabetes mellitus (DM), obesity, chronic kidney disease (CKD), alcoholism, and illicit drug use
The 7 g can holds about 30 small hand-rolled tobacco bits (pastilles), each delivering roughly 5 mg nicotine