Is hookah smoking safer than smoking cigarettes? Answer from J. Taylor Hays, M.D. Hookah smoking is not safer than cigarette smoking. Also known as a narghile, shisha, or goza, a hookah is a water ...

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 ...

AUSTIN (American Heart Association) – While cigarette smoking has hit an all-time low, another form of tobacco use is rising in popularity – hookah smoking – and researchers are concerned there’s a ...

Hookah cafes are gaining in popularity around the world from Britain to Russia to the United States. Use in college students and youths is increasing, with ~15-17% of high school seniors and 22-40% of ...

Nearly one in five recently surveyed high school seniors report having smoked tobacco from a hookah in the past year, and more than a third of them reported smoking hookahs often enough to be ...

One in five high school seniors has smoked from a hookah — and well-off kids are more likely to use the Middle Eastern-style pipe to light up, a new study found. A study by researchers from New York ...

In response to the CMAJ News article by Lauren Vogel,1 we would like to highlight a method of transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) that is underrecognized in ...

With the decline in cigarette smoking, students have taken to other ‘safer’ forms of smoking, especially hookah smoking. However, a pioneering study shows that a single puff from a hookah exposes the ...