Smoking hookah, also known as water pipe smoking or shisha, has gained popularity worldwide as a social activity. While it may seem like a fun and relaxing pastime, the effects of smoking hookah ...

The rising popularity of hookah lounges across global cities has created a dangerous misconception: that water pipe smoking offers a safer alternative to cigarettes. Medical experts and recent ...

The hookah and its use as a calming, recreational tool goes back at least to the 17th century, but Reza Bavar’s love of the pipe goes back to 2001. It’s a love that drove Bavar to found Kaloud ...

Hookah smoking, often perceived as a cultural and social pastime, also carries significant health risks. Inhaling smoke from flavoured tobacco through a water pipe is falsely believed to be less ...

A 2019 study published in the journal Circulation found that carbon monoxide levels increased 9- to 10-fold more in young adults’ breath after smoking charcoal-heated hookah than after ...

State officials and legislators say that the state's no-smoking law, which took effect Jan. 2, applies to hookah bars, just as it applies to nearly every other bar in the state.

That's because a single hookah smoking session can take an hour or more. Shisha smoking contains aldehyde compounds, carbon monoxide, and tar, which are 4–30 times more potent than cigarette ...

Hookah bars, as well as any establishment that can prove it earns more than 10 percent of their annual revenue from tobacco sales, are exempt from the smoking ban in Washington D.C.

Hookah smoking popular with the college crowd By Reuters May 12, 200812:44 PM PDTUpdated May 12, 2008 ...

“It’s like a rite of passage here when you start smoking hookah,” Marrim said. Muhammed Virk, 28, at right, is Pakistani and went to what he describes as an “all-Arab” school.