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| Warning Labels | synonym for Health Warnings |
| Water Pipe | smoking device consisting of a bowl mounted on a vessel of water, which is provided with a long tube and so arranged that the smoke is drawn through the cooling water and up the tube to the mouth, types being bong, hookah, hubble bubble, narguile, shishaReference: Primack BA, Sidani J, Agarwal AA, Shadel WG, Donny EC, Eissenberg TE. Prevalence of and associations with waterpipe tobacco smoking among U.S. university students. Annals of Behavioral Medicine 2008;36(1):81-86. |
| Weedless Wednesday | an annual Canadian cessation awareness event scheduled as a focal point for National Non-Smoking Week in the third full week of January with emphasis on a one-day-at-a-time approach to quitting smoking http://www.nnsw.ca/ |
| WHO | World Health Organization, the United Nations body devoted to public health http://www.who.int |
| Wholesale | the sale of tobacco products in quantity usually for resale (cf. Retail) |
| Withdrawal | physical or psychological discomfort of varying degrees of severity which smokers often experience upon trying to quit, reduce or delay smoking |
| Withdrawal Symptoms | specific discomforts experienced by smokers who quit, reduce or delay smoking, e.g., cough, dry mouth, headache, insomnia,negative affect, nicotine craving |
| WNTD | World No Tobacco Day |
| World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) | a global smoke-free awareness event sponsored by the World Health Organization (WHO) that occurs every year on May 31stAvailable at: http://www.who.int/tobacco/wntd/2008/en; accessed Feb. 18, 2007. |
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The OTRU Glossary of Tobacco Control provides brief definitions of over 1,000 tobacco control terms, abbreviations and acronyms. Definitions are based on many sources including dictionaries, legislative texts, websites, reports, books, peer-reviewed journal articles and communications from tobacco control experts. A single definition often reflects material from more than one source.
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