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Tobacco smoking during pregnancy causes many detrimental effects on health and reproduction, in addition to the general health effects of tobacco.A number of studies have shown that tobacco use is a significant factor in miscarriages among pregnant smokers, and that it contributes to a number of other threats to the health of the foetus.
An Indian man smoking through a hookah, Rajasthan, India.. A hookah (also see other names), [1] [2] [3] shisha, [3] or waterpipe [3] is a single- or multi-stemmed instrument for heating or vaporizing and then smoking either tobacco, flavored tobacco (often muʽassel), or sometimes cannabis, hashish and opium. [3]
A typical session of smoking muʽassel results in a user inhaling 90,000 ml of smoke versus 500 ml for a cigarette, as well as 1.7 times as much nicotine, 8.4 times as much carbon monoxide, and 36 times as much tar. [27] Muʽassel smoking also exposes users to heavy metals and is thought to expose users to more carcinogens than cigarettes. [28]
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The three warning messages below, all meaning "Smoking kills", are posted on cigarette packs until 2024: (in German) Rauchen tötet. (in French) Fumer tue. (in Italian) Il fumo uccide. Since October 2024, the Federal Act on Tobacco Products updated the warnings to "Smoking kills – stop now": (in German) Rauchen ist tödlich – hören Sie ...
Hookah, a water-cooled apparatus for smoking; Hubble bubble (astronomy), a local anomaly in the Hubble constant; a variant of the bubble and squeak in English cuisine; Hubble Bubble, a Belgian punk band
In Philippine folk culture, lihí is a condition of pregnancy food craving. A notable characteristic is that pregnant women usually desire food such as sour, unripe mango with bagoong . While it is a cultural concept restricted among Filipinos , analogous cultural phenomena of pregnancy food cravings have been observed in various cultures.
MPOWER is a policy package intended to assist in the country-level implementation of effective interventions to reduce the demand for tobacco, as ratified by the World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. [1]