VCU.edu - More and more US college students are smoking tobacco using waterpipes – or hookahs – and it’s becoming a growing public health issue, according to a new study led by a Virginia Commonwealth University researcher. vcu.edu -越来越多的美国大学生吸烟使用w aterpipes-或水烟袋-和它的成为越来越多的公共卫生问题，根据一项新的研究为首的弗吉尼亚州联邦大学研究员。

The findings offer important insight into the prevalence and perceptions related to waterpipe tobacco smokers and are reported in the May 2008 issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health.结果，提供了重要的洞察到流行的看法，和相关的水管吸烟者和烟草报告，在2008年5月期日刊青少年的健康。

“These results should serve as an alarm bell to anyone interested in public health in the United States. “这些结果应作为警钟，向有兴趣的人士在公共卫生方面，在美国。 Preventing tobacco-caused death and disease means remaining alert to new forms of tobacco smoking and then understanding the health risks of these new forms and communicating these risks to public health workers, policy makers, and to smokers themselves,” said principal investigator Thomas Eissenberg, Ph.D., associate professor in the VCU Department of Psychology.防止吸烟引起的死亡和疾病的手段，余下的警觉，新形式的吸烟和理解，然后对健康的危害，这些新的形式和沟通，这些风险对公众健康的工人，决策者，以及吸烟者本身，说： “首席调查主任托马斯eissenberg ，博士，副教授，在vcu心理学系。

In a hookah, tobacco is heated by charcoal, and the resulting smoke is passed through a water-filled chamber, cooling the hookah smoke before it reaches the smoker.在一个水烟，烟草是激烈的木炭，及由此产生的烟雾是通过一充水商会，冷却水烟吸烟之前到达吸烟者。 Some waterpipe users perceive this method of smoking tobacco as less harmful and addictive than cigarette smoking.一些水管用户察觉到这个方法的烟丝作为危害较小的和令人上瘾的比吸烟。

According to Eissenberg, current and prospective waterpipe tobacco smokers should be made aware that waterpipe tobacco smoking is not as benign as they might think.据eissenberg当前和未来的水管烟草吸烟者应作出知道水管吸烟是不是良性的，因为他们可能认为。 Waterpipe and cigarette smoke contains some of the same toxins - disease-causing tar and carbon monoxide, as well as addicting nicotine.水管及香烟烟雾中含有一些相同的毒素-引起疾病的焦油和一氧化碳，以及上瘾的尼古丁。 Additionally, the exposure to these toxins through waterpipe smoking may be greater due to longer periods of use.此外，接触这些毒素通过水管吸烟可能更大，由于较长时期使用。

Further, smokers take more and larger puffs with waterpipes, leading to inhalation of 100 times more smoke from a single waterpipe use episode relative to a single cigarette.此外，吸烟者采取更多和更大的puffs与waterpipes ，导致吸入的100倍更多黑烟从一个单一的水管使用插曲相对单一的香烟。

Through a cross-sectional study, approximately 744 students, mostly between the ages of 18 and 21, completed an Internet survey that included questions about demographics, tobacco use, risk perceptions and perceived social acceptability.通过横断面研究，大约有744学生，大多是年龄介于18至21岁，完成了一项网上调查，其中包括问题的人口统计，使用烟草的风险知觉和知觉的社会认受性。

The research team found that approximately 43 percent of those surveyed had smoked tobacco using a waterpipe in the past year; and 20 percent of them had smoked tobacco using a waterpipe in the past month.研究小组发现，大约43 ％的受访者有吸烟的烟草使用水管在过去的一年; ％和20 ％的人吸烟，烟草使用水管在过去的一个月。 Users were more likely to perceive waterpipes as less harmful than cigarettes compared to those who had never used a hookah before.用户更容易察觉waterpipes作为危害较小的比香烟相比，谁那些从未使用过一水烟前。

“The data we report, along with data from other schools, show that waterpipe tobacco smoking is common on college campuses across the country. “我们的数据报告，随着数据从其他学校，水管表明，吸烟是常见的大学校园里该国各地。 Thus, prevention messages, especially those that communicate the potential risks of waterpipe tobacco smoking, should focus on college campuses.”因此，预防信息，特别是那些沟通的潜在风险，水管吸烟，应侧重于大学校园“ 。