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 ...

A hookah is a water pipe that allows a person to smoke tobacco, often combining it with sweet flavors, such as apple, chocolate, coconut, licorice, or watermelon. People have used hookahs for ...

DALLAS, Jan. 16, 2019 – For the first time, in a study conducted in mice, researchers found that tobacco smoke from a hookah caused blood to function abnormally and be more likely to clot and quickly ...

Hookah smokers are familiar with the fuzzy, lightheaded feeling brought on by sucking on a keg of flavored tobacco for extended periods of time. Those symptoms, along with headaches and nausea, are ...

Hookah bars can be found in every major U.S. city and many small and medium-sized towns across the nation. At hookah bars, guests relax and socialize while smoking shisha, a tobacco product available ...

A hookah is a water pipe used to smoke tobacco. It’s also called a shisha (or sheesha), hubble-bubble, narghile, and goza. The word “hookah” refers to the pipe, not the contents of the pipe. The ...

Editor’s Note: Dr. Chethan Sathya is a surgical resident at the University of Toronto and a fellow in global journalism at the Munk School of Global Affairs. Follow him on twitter @drchethansathya.

The Sultan Café, on the city’s northwest side near Babcock and Huebner, is one of several local hookah joints to open in the past few years. Frequent throughout the Near and Middle East, hookah cafés ...

When Seattleite Shaher Abuelkhair was growing up in Palestinian circles in 1950s Jerusalem, hookah was a middle-aged affair, at least in the coffee shops where the elaborate and elegant waterpipes ...

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 ...