Many research studies have shown the dangers of smoking cigarettes, but the effects of hookah smoking have not been studied extensively. A new study of 9,840 people in Iran has found that hookah ...

Hookah smoking is often regarded as a social affair, fostering a sense of camaraderie among participants. However, beneath the veil of this communal pastime lies a realm of potential health risks that ...

While cigarette smoking is still a leading cause of preventable death, the last 50 years have witnessed tremendous strides in curbing the disease-causing practice. But in a scientific statement ...

Mahendra Singh Dhoni has always been known for his calm personality and his unusual ways of bonding with teammates. Over the ...

It’s a tobacco smoking style with many names: hookah, shisha, narghile, goza, and hubble-bubble, to name a few. Invented in India in the 15th century, water-pipe smoking has long been popular in the ...

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 ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. – Cary Wilson studies for his astrology class while taking a drag from the hose extending from his hookah water pipe, slowly inhaling the fragrant shisha – a mixture of tobacco, ...

Do you smoke cigarettes? What about marijuana? Many doctors, including myself, routinely ask patients these questions. Over the years, fewer and fewer people say yes. But if you — like me — thought ...

As cigarette smoking rates fall, more people are smoking tobacco from hookahs: communal pipes that enable users to draw tobacco smoke through water. A new meta-analysis shows that hookah smokers are ...

When his friends told Ryan Saadawi that inhaling hookah smoke for an hour was the equivalent of smoking 100 cigarettes, the University of Cincinnati graduate student had his doubts. So Saadawi, who is ...

Although cigarette smoking isn't nearly as popular with teens in the United States as it was a decade ago, that doesn't mean teens don't smoke. A new study finds that a more exotic form of tobacco use ...

Hookahs and water pipes are now gaining popularity in the United States and other countries and it may just be the "the first new tobacco trend of the 21st century." In a study that scientists said ...