12/2014, p. 56-63
Medical and social aspects of narcology

Waterpipe smoking: medical, sociocultural and psychological aspects

MENDELEVICH V.D.

Аннотация:
The review devoted to a subject of waterpipe smoking, includes data of the modern researches aboutsociocultural aspects (prevalence of smoking of a hookah in the different countries and cultures), medical consequences (oncological, vascular, respiratory, psychiatric), and also the analysis of probability of development of dependence at consumers of a hookah, and also a comorbidity with other addictions.

Ключевые слова:
waterpipe, addiction, dependence, medical consequences