Important Publications

Jebai, R., Asfar, T., Nakkash, R., Chehab, S., Ben Romdhane, H., & Maziak, W. (2021). Examining the effect of waterpipe specific pictorial health warning labels among young adults in Lebanon and Tunisia: Protocol of a factorial experiment study design. Contemporary clinical trials communications, 23, 100797. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conctc.2021.100797.

Ebrahimi Kalan, M., Bahelah, R., Bursac, Z., Ward, K. D., Ben Taleb, Z., Tleis, M., Jebai, R., Asfar, T., Eissenberg, T., & Maziak, W. (2021). A Group-based Modeling Approach to Identify Developmental Trajectories of Nicotine Dependence Among Lebanese Adolescents Waterpipe Smokers. Nicotine & tobacco research: official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, ntab128. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntab128

Li, W., Vargas-Rivera, M., Ebrahimi Kalan, M., Ben Taleb, Z., Asfar, T., Osibogun, O., ... & Maziak, W. (2021). The Effect of Graphic Health Warning Labels Placed on the ENDS Device on Young Adult Users’ Experience, Exposure and Intention to Use: A Pilot Study. Health Communication, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2021.1872158

Ebrahimi Kalan, M., Behaleh, R., DiFranza, J. R., Bursac, Z., Ben Taleb, Z., Tleis, M., Asfar, T., Nakkash, R., Ward, K. D., Eissenberg, T., & Maziak, W. (2020). Natural Course of Nicotine Dependence Among Adolescent Waterpipe and Cigarette Smokers. The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine, 67(6), 859–867. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2020.04.030

Alam, M. M., Ward, K. D., Bahelah, R., Kalan, M. E., Asfar, T., Eissenberg, T., & Maziak, W. (2020). The Syrian Center for Tobacco Studies-13 (SCTS-13): Psychometric evaluation of a waterpipe-specific nicotine dependence instrument. Drug and alcohol dependence, 215, 108192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2020.108192

Maziak, W., Osibogun, O., & Asfar, T. (2019). Waterpipe smoking: the pressing need for risk communication. Expert review of respiratory medicine, 13(11), 1109-1119. https://doi.org/10.1080/17476348.2019.1668271

Maziak, W., Ben Taleb, Z., Ebrahimi Kalan, M., Eissenberg, T., Thrasher, J., Shihadeh, A., & Asfar, T. (2019). Pictorial health warning labels on the waterpipe device are effective in reducing smoking satisfaction, puffing behaviour and exposure to CO: first evidence from a crossover clinical laboratory study. Tobacco control, 28(e1), e37–e42. https://doi.org/10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2018-054682

Asfar, T., Ben Taleb, Z., Osibogun, O., Ruano-Herreria, E. C., Sierra, D., Ward, K. D., Salloum, R. G., & Maziak, W. (2019). How Do Waterpipe Smoking Establishments Attract Smokers? Implications for Policy. Substance use & misuse, 54(4), 560–571. https://doi.org/10.1080/10826084.2018.1524489

Ben Taleb, Z., Laestadius, L. I., Asfar, T., Primack, B. A., & Maziak, W. (2019). #Hookahlife: The Rise of Waterpipe Promotion on Instagram. Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education, 46(1), 106–113. https://doi.org/10.1177/1090198118779131

Salloum, R. G., Asfar, T., & Maziak, W. (2016). Toward a Regulatory Framework for the Waterpipe. American journal of public health, 106(10), 1773–1777. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2016.303322

Asfar, T., Ward, K. D., Al-Ali, R., & Maziak, W. (2016). Building Evidence-Based Tobacco Treatment in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: Lessons Learned by the Syrian Center for Tobacco Studies. Journal of smoking cessation, 11(2), 116–123. https://doi.org/10.1017/jsc.2016.5

Salloum RG, Maziak W, Hammond D, et al. Eliciting preferences for waterpipe tobacco smoking using a discrete choice experiment: implications for product regulation. BMJ Open 2015;5:e009497. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2015- 009497

Maziak, W., Jawad, M., Jawad, S., Ward, K. D., Eissenberg, T., & Asfar, T. (2015). Interventions for waterpipe smoking cessation. The Cochrane database of systematic reviews, 2015(7), CD005549. https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD005549.pub3

Asfar, T., Al Ali, R., Rastam, S., Maziak, W., & Ward, K. D. (2014). Behavioral cessation treatment of waterpipe smoking: The first pilot randomized controlled trial. Addictive behaviors, 39(6), 1066–1074. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2014.02.012

Maziak, W., et al. (2011). "Nicotine exposure in daily waterpipe smokers and its relation to puff topography." Addictive Behaviors 36(4): 397-399. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2010.11.013

Maziak, W., et al. (2009). "CO exposure, puff topography, and subjective effects in waterpipe tobacco smokers." Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco 11(7): 806-811. https://doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntp066

Asfar, T., Ward, K. D., Eissenberg, T., & Maziak, W. (2005). Comparison of patterns of use, beliefs, and attitudes related to waterpipe between beginning and established smokers. BMC public health, 5, 19. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-5-19