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 ...

My how times change. Not all that many years ago, smoking indoors was just the way it was. Bars, restaurants, government buildings, places of work, malls, shopping centers, even teachers’ lounges in ...

Smoking trendy hookah waterpipes could be more dangerous than other forms of smoking, scientists have said. Researchers have found one draw of the tabletop pipe has the equivalent amount of hazardous ...

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 ...

Hookah smoke contains more toxic chemicals than cigarettes, which can be harmful to the heart. Therefore, tobacco smoking with a water pipe or hookah can affect your heart rate, blood pressure and ...

Whether it's a cigarette, cigar, pipe or hookah, smoking tobacco in any form is unsafe. Using a hookah even for an hour is equal to smoking 50 to 100 cigarettes. A case report in the Medical Journal ...

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 ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Robert Glatter is a New York-based physician covering public health. Hookah bars and cafes have been popping up more frequently ...

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 ...