Ban on Hookah Smoking Should Stay, Argue Doctors

Campaigners are trying to get hookah smoking exempted from Englands smoking ban for cultural reasons. Despite there being little research into the health effects , doctors writing in this weeks BMJ say the ban should stay in place. A hookah is a glass based waterpipe used for smoking. It is...

Islamabad Bans Hookah Smoking in Public Places

Authorities have banned the use of hookah, or hubble-bubble, in the Pakistani capital saying that besides being a serious health hazard they were spoiling the younger// generation. A way of relaxation, either individually or in company down the ages across South Asia and the Middle East, the ...

Cigarette, Pipe or the Hookah , Equally Bad to Make You Go Up in Smoke !

New York: Hookah is dangerous, more so because its look and perception speaks of deception. Hookah has almost acquired a ‘cult’ status, and is becoming the life of many parties//. But a researcher from Washington has warned that the hookah or the pipe is indeed a wolf in sheep’s clothing! Dr....

Chrigu Wins Grand Prize at First Ever International Documentary Film Festival on Cancer

... Cancer (USA) for Best Reportage, The Art of Living (India) for Best Personal Story, The Children of Avenir (Morocco) for Best Organizational Film and hookah (Israel) for the best Public Service Announcement. Award winners were chosen from an impressive line-up of 33 finalists from 16 countries. More than...

First International Cancer Film Festival Announces Finalists

... Care (USA) I Beat Cancer (USA) Any Questions? (Canada) Basketball (Israel) Bumblebee (Sweden) Chips (Israel) How Long is a String? (Australia) hookah (Israel) Don't Concede to Eye Cancer (India) Smoke (Brazil) Zita (Australia) Personal Stories Chrigu (Switzerland) Transparent Time (Israel) ...

Waterpipe Smoking in Colleges Could Become Public Health Problem

...nternet survey, said they'd smoked tobacco using a hookah in the past year. Twenty percent had used a hookah in the past month. Users were more likely than non... nicotine. Exposure to toxins may be greater among hookah users due to longer periods of use and the fact th...

Public Health Officials Warn About the Unrecognized Health Hazards of Smoking from a Hookah, Reports the Harvard Mental Health Letter

... students and other young people -- smoking from a hookah -- is raising public health concerns. The centurie...s of tobacco. Yet a number of studies suggest that hookah smoking may be just as addictive and perhaps even ...tal Health Letter. Researchers have found that hookah smokers inhale more often and for longer periods t...

Hookah Smoking as Tough on Lungs as Cigarettes

...ealthDay News) -- A leisurely hour of puffs from a hookah -- a kind of tobacco water pipe that's popular amo...oxic gas, making it impossible to directly compare hookah use to the well-known hazards of cigarette smoking. Still, the findings suggest that hookah fans should think twice before lighting that pipe,...

Jacqueline Kennedy Onnasis Phobia Over Daughters Weight Gain Revealed

...he blame, the author wrote. When Caroline received a letter from her grand mom, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, who wrote to her reprimanding her for hookah addiction, Jackie O did not react much. But, she cancelled her daughters credit card when she found that Caroline had purchased barbecued spar...

Indian Films With Smoking Scenes may Get 'A' Certificate

... New Delhi, Films showing actors blowing glorious rings of smoke or village elders smoking a hookah may soon be out of reach for those below 18 years//. An autonomous body helping the Indian government in its fight against tobacco consumption h...

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Hookah in Medical Dictionary

Tobacco use

... ... Describes the dental problems associated with smoking and other uses of tobacco including cigarettes, cigars, smokeless tobacco and hookah water pipes. community- and population-based interventions to prevent tobacco use and to increase consumer ... tobacco marketing on smoking,...