Table 2 Effective Interventions in Preventing and Controlling Water Pipe Smoking
From: Preventing and controlling water pipe smoking: a systematic review of management interventions
Main Category | Interventions |
|---|---|
Preventive interventions | 1-Community-based informing interventions [1,2,3,4] 2-College-based education [1, 5, 6] 3-Decreasing social acceptability and occasional smoking [4, 7] |
Control interventions | 1-Controlling WP industry marketing [16] 2-Enforcement of new FDA rules [17] 3-Coordinated enforcement of WPS control in adjacent area [18] 4-Involving policymakers to support executive authority in WPS control [19] 5-Licensing and control of all none-WP activities [18] 6-Reducing youth access to WP locations and products [63] 7-Strong implementation of current legislations [20,21,22] 8-Using successful experiences of authority in WPS control [18] |
Enactment and implementation of legislatives and policies on international levels | 1-Monitoring activities of WP industry marketing and designing proper control measures [16, 23] 2-Compulsion of industry to append evidence-base health warning labelling in proper places and sizes in WP device, accessories, and other products [24,25,26,27] 3-Developing evidence-based control programs tailored to the needs of new generation [9] 4-Encouraging scientists to develop effective interventions of WP control for policymakers [28] 5-Compulsion of industry to decrease the production of various fruit-flavored and sweet tobaccos [29, 30] 6-Preventing social pages and websites from deceptive advertising [31, 32] |
Enactment and implementation of legislatives and policies on national levels | 1-Restricting WP settings [12, 19] 2-Determining proper taxation for WP tobacco packs, devices, and all products [27, 63, 64] 3-Monitoring consumption of medical and nursing students and health care professionals for designing control measures [34] 4-Involving health care professionals to cooperate in the WPS control program [35, 36] 5-Offering evidence-based counseling knowledge about WPS control to health professionals [37] 6-Improving quality of training curricula and informing medical sciences students about WPS control [35] 7-Encouraging executive authorities in developing innovative ways of WPS control [17, 18] |