Thomas Eissenberg

For me, the implication is there may be some underlying level of disease, like what we're seeing in this cluster, that's been going on all along.

Thomas Eissenberg

This important study adds to the growing literature demonstrating that water pipe tobacco smoking exposes user to many of the same smoke toxicants to which cigarette smokers are exposed.

Thomas Eissenberg

Both the laboratory and the naturalistic studies are consistent with one another, that water pipe tobacco smoke contains many toxicants, including nicotine that causes dependence, tobacco-specific nitrosamines that cause cancer, carbon monoxide that causes cardiovascular disease, and now benzene that causes leukemia, and water pipe tobacco smokers have these same toxicants in their bodies after they smoke tobacco in a water pipe.

Thomas Eissenberg

There is an oft-repeated myth that water pipe use in this country is only occasional and thus somehow not harmful.

Thomas Eissenberg