Source: Annual Congress 2012 - Tobacco and shisha exposure in children and adolescents
Disease area: Airway diseases, Paediatric lung diseases

Abstract

As first cigarettes are irritants and unpleasant, tobacco industry try to charmed adolescent with supposed "sweet and soft tobacco product" as water pipes (Shisha) before initiation to cigarettes use. However, this sweetness is only apparent. This product, unknown to French teenagers 10 years ago, has become very popular.
We analyzed on Parisian schoolchildren how the smoking ban, including the closure of shisha bars in 2008, modified shisha experimentation in teenagers.
Methods: Since 2007, a question about the experience of shisha was introduced in the Parisian annual PST survey. This self-administered anonymously questionnaire is assigned at random by class towards 2% of schoolchildren population, in colleges and in high schools of Paris Academy.
Results: 10% of 12 years old children had experimented shisha. The rate of shisha experimenter increases progressively until 2/3 of 17 years old students. This experiment has not been decrease at any age by the ban. After the ban (2009-2011) the experimentation of shisha increased from 20% to 30% for 14 year-old schoolchildren compared to 2007-2008 survey.

Conclusion: Total ban don‘t decrease initiation of tobacco smoke with shisha in Parisian teenagers. Preventive campaigns are needed to inform adolescents that shisha is harmful and may be a gate for initiation of tobacco use, but, unfortunately, all budgets for this prevention has been cut down for 5 years in France.

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M.D. Dautzenberg, P. Birkui, M. Noel, B. Dautzenberg (Paris, France). The rate of shisha experimenter‘s continues to increase among Parisian students after the smoking ban. Eur Respir J 2012; 40: Suppl. 56, 4066

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