Shisha Smoking Habit among Dental School Students in the United Arab Emirates: Enabling Factors and Barriers

Table 3

Social environment characteristics of the study participants.

Variables	Number	Percentage (%)
Father smokes shisha	48	12.1
Mother smokes shisha	23	5.8
Sibling smokes shisha	137	34.5
Friends can influence smoking	348	87.7
Parents influenced decision to start shisha smoking	192	48.4
Advertisement about shisha can influence smoking	276	69.5
Girls are more comfortable in smoking shisha compared to cigarette	283	71.3
People smoking shisha look cool	58	14.6
Shisha smoking is our cultural heritage	108	27.2
People smoking shisha have more friends	70	17.6