As people steer away from cigarettes, more are smoking tobacco from hookahs, large communal pipes that draw tobacco smoke through water. It appears though that while smoking cigarette has long been ...

Clouds of sickly sweet blackberry smoke are billowing out of Isaac Doss' mouth. He takes a long draw from the bubbling hookah and passes the pipe to Kara Brick. They are sprawled on cushioned wicker ...

A study published on Monday by the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine found that one session of smoking hookah — a communal water pipe characterized by its hose and flavored tobacco — has 125 ...

Hookah bars and cafes have been popping up more frequently throughout the US, promoted as a recreational and social activity that is potentially safer than cigarette smoking. Unfortunately, based on ...

With water pipes or hookahs gaining popularity, scientists have described a step toward establishing their health risks. In a study that they said provides no support for the notion that hookahs are ...

Smoking water pipe tobacco from hookahs and using the smokeless tobacco snus were associated with initiating cigarette smoking and smoking cigarettes in the past 30 days among previously nonsmoking ...

LAKE FOREST – Three days a week, Sara Barnes visits a hookah lounge, lights up a water pipe and inhales its flavorful smoke. “You come here to relax and hang out with people and not spend much ...

In hookah smoking, pipes are filled with tobacco extracts or shisha. Shisha is often a mix of tobacco and fruit, mint, or molasses sugar that is processed specifically for use in water pipes. Hookah ...

This holiday, talk to your kids about smoking — and not just cigarettes. A new study shows that young people who smoke hookah, or water pipe tobacco, are twice as likely to pick up a cigarette habit. ...

Many people think that smoking a hookah (water pipe) is fun, but it increases the level of carcinogens and nicotine in urine, which may in turn put users at risk of cancer and other chronic diseases.

Smoking tobacco through a hookah is a pastime gaining popularity among the college crowd, but many mistakenly believe that using the fragrant water pipe is less harmful than smoking cigarettes. In a ...