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 ...

Republican congressman Darrell Issa of San Diego County and Democrat Don Davis of North Carolina have introduced the Hookah Clarification Act of 2024 to equally tax hookah waterpipe tobacco and ...

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 ...

Many casual smokers have long considered the hookah pipe a divertingly social, slightly healthier alternative to smoking cigarettes — but the hookah is as risky as, or even worse than so-called cancer ...

Medo Alotaibi smokes tobacco using a hookah, or water pipe, several days a week, usually two hours at a time, to relax, relieve stress and socialize with fellow UND aviation students from Saudi Arabia ...

Legislation passed by the House of Representatives to ban flavored electronic cigarettes would outlaw the flavored tobaccos used in hookah pipes. The bill, the Reversing the Youth Tobacco Epidemic Act ...

Shisha Town, a hookah shop, on March 26, 2017, in Sterling Heights, Michigan. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images) LOS ANGELES — In 2019, local business owners began gathering ...

With hip-hop music providing the soundtrack, customers at the Laziz Cafe in Garden Grove pull 3-foot hoses to their lips, inhale the sweet-flavored tobacco smoke from hookah pipes and blow smoke rings ...

Who would have thunk 60 years ago that Bensonhurst, an enclave of Italians and Jews, would also be home to so many other cultures and religions today?Who would have thunk that this non-smoking Italian ...