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An Occupational Hazard for Hookah Bar Employees Research paper Tob Control: first published as 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2015-052505 on 25 January 2016. Downloaded from Secondhand hookah smoke: an occupational hazard for hookah bar employees Sherry Zhou,1 Leili Behrooz,2 Michael Weitzman,3,4,5 Grace Pan,4 Ruzmyn Vilcassim,4 Jaime E Mirowsky,6 Patrick Breysee,7 Ana Rule,7 Terry Gordon4,5 1Department of Internal ABSTRACT workers passively exposed to SHS in various set- Medicine, University of Background Despite the increasing popularity of tings played a critical role in implementing the Michigan School of Medicine, hookah bars, there is a lack of research assessing the large number of effective public and workplace Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA 3 2New York University, health effects of hookah smoke among employees. This restrictions on smoking. These efforts, in turn, New York, New York, USA study investigated indoor air quality in hookah bars and have resulted in marked decreases worldwide in the 3 Department of Pediatrics, the health effects of secondhand hookah smoke on involuntary exposure of individuals to SHS. New York University School of hookah bar workers. Accompanying the decline in cigarette use, Medicine, New York, New York, USA Methods Air samples were collected during the work recent evidence indicates that increasing numbers 4Department of Environmental shift of 10 workers in hookah bars in New York City of US adolescents and adults are turning to alterna- Medicine, New York University (NYC). Air measurements of fine particulate matter tive tobacco products,45such as hookahs (aka School of Medicine, New York, (PM ), fine black carbon (BC ), carbon monoxide (CO), water pipes). The 2013 National Youth Tobacco New York, USA 2.5 2.5 5NYU College of Global Public and nicotine were collected during each work shift. Blood Survey reported that 14% of high school students Health, New York, New York, pressure and heart rate, markers of active smoking and have ever tried hookah and that 5.2% had used it USA secondhand smoke exposure (exhaled CO and saliva within the past month.6 A similar alarming statistic 6 University of North Carolina, cotinine levels), and selected inflammatory cytokines in from the Monitoring the Future (MTF) Survey Chapel Hill, North Carolina, blood (ineterleukin (IL)-1b, IL-6, IL-8, interferon γ (IFN-γ), found that past year hookah use significantly USA α 7Department of Environmental tumour necrosis factor (TNF- )) were assessed in workers increased among high school seniors from 18.3% 7 Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins immediately prior to and immediately after their work in 2012 to 21.4% in 2013. Both of these surveys University, Baltimore, shift. used large, nationally representative samples of Maryland, USA Results The PM2.5 (gravimetric) and BC2.5 adolescents in the USA. concentrations in indoor air varied greatly among the Most hookah users erroneously believe that Correspondence to 3 copyright. Dr Terry Gordon, NYU School work shifts with mean levels of 363.8 mg/m and hookah water pipes are safer and less addictive – of Medicine, 57 Old Forge Rd, 2.2 mg/m3, respectively. The mean CO level was alternatives to cigarettes.8 20 This belief, unsurpris- Tuxedo, NY 10987, USA; 12.9 ppm with a peak value of 22.5 ppm CO observed in ingly, has led to the social normalisation of [email protected] one hookah bar. While heart rate was elevated by 6 bpm smoking hookah as a trendy and acceptable way to 18 20–24 All authors participated in the after occupational exposure, this change was not socialise with friends. A number of studies writing and editing of the statistically significant. Levels of inflammatory cytokines in now demonstrate poor indoor air quality of – manuscript. blood were all increased at postshift compared to preshift hookah bars,25 27 and deleterious health effects of testing with IFN-Υ increasing from 0.85 (0.13) to 1.6 secondhand hookah smoke,28 especially to exposed Received 3 June 2015 29 30 http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/ Revised 1 December 2015 (0.25) (mean (standard error of the mean; SEM)) pg/mL children, as summarised in a recent review. The Accepted 9 December 2015 (p<0.01). Exhaled CO levels were significantly elevated perceived lack of concern that hookah bar workers Published Online First after the work shift with 2 of 10 workers having values and owners have about the dangers of working in 25 January 2016 >90 ppm exhaled CO. such establishments may be partly due to a lack of Conclusions These results demonstrate that hookah awareness of the emerging evidence on the health bars have elevated concentrations of indoor air pollutants effects of hookah water pipe mainstream and SHS, that appear to cause adverse health effects in employees. but is very likely due to the absence of any data These data indicate the need for further research and a about effects of exposure on the workers marked need for better air quality monitoring and policies themselves. in such establishments to improve the indoor air quality This study assessed: (1) hookah bar indoor air for workers and patrons. quality for particulate matter (PM2.5), black carbon on 12 October 2018 by guest. Protected (BC), carbon monoxide (CO) and nicotine; (2) bio- logical makers of SHS exposure, such as exhaled CO (eCO) and saliva cotinine; (3) cardiac function; INTRODUCTION and (4) selected markers of systemic inflammation The intentional inhalation of tobacco combustion in hookah bar employees before and after their products causes profound respiratory, cardiovascu- work shifts. lar and numerous other adverse health effects.1 In addition to the effects of mainstream tobacco METHODS smoke, secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure also Fourteen hookah bars located in Manhattan, causes a range of serious health problems in adults, New York City (NYC) were selected using the adolescents and children.1 SHS is the third leading search engine ‘Yelp’. Each of these hookah bars was preventable cause of death in the USA, responsible visited for recruitment by directly talking with the To cite: Zhou S, Behrooz L, for 3000 lung cancer and 35 000 coronary heart workers. From 4 of the 14 targeted hookah bars Weitzman M, et al. Tob disease deaths annually in never-smokers in the in the East Village and Greenwich Village in – Control 2017;26:40 45. USA.2 Documented deleterious health effects on Manhattan, 10 hookah bar workers who met the 40 Zhou S, et al. Tob Control 2017;26:40–45. doi:10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2015-052505 Research paper Tob Control: first published as 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2015-052505 on 25 January 2016. Downloaded from inclusion and exclusion criteria were recruited (table 1). pipes being used at the time of sampling, active smokers, total Inclusion was limited to individuals aged 20 or older working in patrons and the general ventilation status of the bars were a hookah bar in Manhattan, NYC. Those who were pregnant or recorded every 15 min in the field and are presented in table 2 current cigarette smokers were excluded from the study. Prior to (mean (SD)). sample recruitment or testing, approval was obtained from the Participants were tested before the start of their work shift Institutional Review Board of the New York University School and once after the work shift to detect changes in cardiac func- of Medicine and informed consent was obtained from all tion and inflammatory biomarkers. Preshift testing was done 1– participants. 2 h prior to the start of each worker’s shift. Postshift testing was The indoor air quality of the selected hookah bars was tested started 15–30 min after their shift was over. Workers usually on the nights that workers of that specific venue were being started their shifts around 16:00–17:00 in the afternoon and examined (see table 2 for the number of workers studied each finished around 3:00–4:00 in the morning. Basic demographic night; note that a total of five workers at bar 2 were studied on information including name, age, sex, height and weight of the three separate occasions). Biological testing and air quality sam- participants as well as their work shift length was recorded. pling were targeted for Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights They were also asked if they had worked the night before when hookah bars are most crowded. testing took place. Styrene, 2-piece cassettes (SKC, Inc; Eighty Four, The prework and postwork shift cardiovascular tests included Pennsylvania, USA) were used to collect total PM samples on heart rate, which was continuously monitored with a Polar H7 polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) filters (low trace element back- chest strap sensor, iPod Touch, and the Heart Rate Variability ground; Pall Corp, Port Washington, New York, USA) at 4 L/min Logger app (Marco Altini), and blood pressure, which was mea- for gravimetric analyses. Sample flow rates were calibrated before sured three times at a minimum of 1 min intervals with a semi- each run using a dry gas meter (BIOS Dry Cal DC-Lite., Brandt automated monitor (Omron HEM- 705CP, Omron Healthcare, Instruments, Prairieville, Louisiana, USA). Nicotine was sampled Inc., Japan). Exhaled CO (eCO) levels were measured prework with an XAD-4 sampling tube (SKC, Inc) at a flow rate of 1.5 L/ and postwork shift with an eCO monitor (Bedfont Pico Plus min. Filters and nicotine sorbent tubes were sampled with per- Smokerlyzer, coVita, Haddonfield, New Jersey, USA). sonal sampling pumps with battery packs (BGI 400, BGI, Inc, Inflammatory biomarkers in blood included ineterleukin Waltham, Massachusetts, USA). Handbags/backpacks contained a (IL)-1b, IL-6, IL-8, IL-10, IL-12 p70, interferon γ (IFN-γ), and micro-aethalometer (Model AE51, AethLabs, San Francisco, tumour necrosis factor α (TNF-α). Blood samples were obtained California, USA) and a CO data logger (Lascar EL-USB-CO-300, using a finger stick using a diabetic lancet and dried on a Erie, Pennsylvania, USA) to measure real time BC with a mass Guthrie card (Whatman) and stored in a dessicator at −80°C median aerodynamic diameter (MMAD) of 2.5 mm (BC ) until analysis.
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