What can waterpipe tobacco smoking teach us about the need for a more rapid response to emerging non-communicable disease risks?

The author discusses the paper by Jawad and colleagues regarding waterpipe tobacco smoking (WTS). He mentions that the popularity of WTS begun in the late 1990s, in which it says that WTS is a world-wide phenomenon as of November 2013. He suggests the need to follow the model established for infectious disease to address the concern on WTS.