World health experts warned Thursday that smoking water pipes, long popular in the Middle East and North Africa and with a growing fan base elsewhere, can be more harmful than cigarettes. 世界卫生专家近期警告称， ...

PHILADELPHIA — Smoking tobacco in a water pipe resulted in a different pattern of exposure to toxic substances and may result in a cancer risk profile that is different from that of cigarette ...

Pipe and cigar smokers often wave off worries that smoking is bad for their health. They claim their habit is harmless and perpetuate the common misperception that pipes and cigars are somehow ...

The Middle East has the world’s highest prevalence of water pipe smoking, with the greatest concentration in Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine, according to Gemma Vestal from the WHO’s Tobacco Free ...

However, the Canadian Cancer Society is concerned about students smoking through water pipes (also known as hookah or shisha) and student smoking of cigarillos remains a significant issue.

Similar effects of water pipe smoking and deep inhalation cigarette smoking on respiratory status were found. Wheezing was present in 23% of water pipe smokers, 30% in S-DI, and 21.6% in S-NI.

"Our findings reveal that there were profound effects of water-pipe smoking on lung function values, which were similar to the effects observed in deep-inhalation cigarette smokers," Boskabady ...

aged 46 ± 14 y Water-pipe smokers who quit cigarette smoking: 95 subjects, aged 54 ± 12 y Nonsmokers: 117 subjects, aged 46 ± 16 y Type: water pipe, cigarette Measurement: self-developed tool ...

However, when SS patients were grouped according to smoking 1-3 (n = 30), 4-6 (37), 7-9 (17) and 10-12 (16) pipes per day, there was a significant trend. Respective rates were 10%, 22% ...

The University of Rochester Medical Center explains that whenever tobacco is burned, whether in a pipe or a cigarette, it releases poisons and harmful toxins such as: Smoking a hookah or water ...