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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hookah-tobacco users might want to rethink how they heat up their water pipes, based on new research. Tobacco in hookah pipes is normally burned with specially made charcoal briquettes, which can ...

In recent decades, smoking tobacco through a water pipe, or hookah, has gained popularity worldwide, including in the U.S. -- especially among young adults. Research finds that around 1 in 5 college ...

DEAR STRAIGHT TALK: My 17-year-old son just left for the "hookah bar." He said this is a popular social activity where you sit around outdoors smoking flavored tobacco from a shared water pipe. He ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . There is evidence that water pipe tobacco or hookah smoking may present risk for CVD, but further research is ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hookah pipes or water pipes are gaining a lot of popularity amongst teens. However, a recent study suggests that hookah pipe smoking may lead to cigarette smoking. Lead researcher Samir Soneji, of ...

The tobacco and fruit mixture smoked in public hookah bars might be considerably more dangerous than its pleasant scent would suggest. An analysis of people who smoked from water pipes three times a ...