Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Following 30-minute waterpipe use, habitual users had elevated blood pressure and heart rate vs. before use. At ...

In recent decades, smoking tobacco through a water pipe, or hookah, has gained popularity worldwide, including in the U.S. -- especially among young adults. Research finds that around 1 in 5 college ...

Smokers underestimate their personal risk of illness, and a key aim of a new study was to try and persuade them that these risks are personally relevant. Smokers underestimate their personal risk of ...

While most cigarette smokers endorse the desire to quit, it is estimated that only 14–49% will achieve full abstinence after 6 months (Holmes et al, 2004; Hughes et al, 1999; Hurt et al, 1997; Jorenby ...

The good news? Cigarette smoking rates are dropping. The bad news? More and more people are turning to communal pipes, called hookahs, that allow tobacco smoke to be drawn through water, which ...