Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Robert Glatter is a New York-based physician covering public health. Hookah bars and cafes have been popping up more frequently ...

Cigarette smoking may have earned a reputation as an unhealthy, cancer-causing pastime, but water pipes seem to have largely evaded the stigma. Now, new research shows that water pipes may simply be ...

Many clinicians have been getting questions about the health effects of hookah, a type of pipe. Is this method of inhaling smoke less harmful than cigarette smoking? In a typical hookah bar, patrons ...

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 ...

As people steer away from cigarettes, more are smoking tobacco from hookahs, large communal pipes that draw tobacco smoke through water. It appears though that while smoking cigarette has long been ...

The hookah, also known as the shisha, narghileh, or water pipe, dates back centuries in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia, but its popularity has only recently begun to take hold in the ...

A California hookah pipe maker's copyright infringement lawsuit against a rival went up in smoke today when a federal appeals court ruled that hookahs are not copyrightable. The appellate decision is ...

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