2002-10-27 04:00:00 PDT Cairo, Egypt-- At the Sidi Mansour outdoor cafe in the upscale Mohandiseen district here, smokers sat around low tables and puffed lazily on water pipes. Fragrant smoke ...

(HealthDay News) – Smoking tobacco in water pipes is associated with a different pattern of carcinogen exposure than smoking cigarettes, according to a study published online March 5 in Cancer ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

4. Bong Bongs, also referred to as water pipes, are smoking devices that use water to cool and filter smoke. Because the smoke is cooled, people tend to take larger hits and produce more smoke ...

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 ...

rose after 30-minute outdoor use of the pipe, according to results published in CHEST. “Waterpipe smoking is associated with both acute and chronic adverse effects on arterial function in young ...