Letter to the EditorA call to address Dokha smoking: an emerging form of tobacco use
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Acknowledgement
Mohammed Al-Houqani. Assistant Professor & consultant of Internal Medicine, Respirology and Sleep Medicine College of Medicine and Health Sciences UAE University and Tobacco Control Research Collaborative UAE.
Ethical approval
Not required.
Funding
None.
Competing interests
None declared.
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Chemical characterization and safety assessment of dokha: An emerging alternative tobacco product
2018, Science of the Total EnvironmentCitation Excerpt :Despite its growing popularity, very little research has been done to investigate dokha smoking. Published work on dokha appears to be focused on its prevalence along with a very limited number of case studies on its health effects (Al-Houqani et al., 2012; Al Shemmari et al., 2015; Alsaadi et al., 2014; Asfour et al., 2015; CDC, 2015; Jayakumary et al., 2010; Shaikh et al., 2014, 2012; Vupputuri et al., 2014). A study by Shaikh et al., reported the effects of smoking dokha on the cardiovascular and respiratory systems (Shaikh et al., 2012).
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