title: [Women smoking in the Tunisian center: socio demographic characteristics and effects on functional respiratory parameters].
abstract: Objectives of this study were to describe sociodemographic characteristics of Tunisian woman smoker and to study her respiratory functional profile.
  
  
  METHODS
  all women answered for a questionnaire and benefited of a total physical plethysmography and of a carbon monoxide lung transfer measure (TLCO).
  
  
  RESULTS
  101 smoking women were selected. These women consumed cigarettes (74 %), the snuff "neffa "(10 %) and the water pipe (15 %). A chronic bronchitis was present at 22 women. A proximal bronchial obstruction was found at 11 women who were consumer of the "neffa" and cigarettes. A lower airway obstruction was found in all women consumer of water pipe. The TLCO was low at "neffa" group of women.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  woman smoking has a negative influence on pulmonary function which depends on sociocultural characteristics and on the history of smoking.
authors.forename: Sonia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rouatbi
authors.forename: Sonia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mezghenni
authors.forename: Malek
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ayachi
authors.forename: Mohamed
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Benzarti
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002248:Carbon Monoxide / Q000378:metabolism; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D008875:Middle Aged; D010991:Plethysmography; D012129:Respiratory Function Tests; D012907:Smoking / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014030:Tobacco, Smokeless / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014416:Tunisia / Q000453:epidemiology; D055815:Young Adult
chemical_list: D002248:Carbon Monoxide