Dr Rima Nakkash, assistant research professor of health behaviour and education at the American Universityof Beirut, highlighted the growing number of shisha smokers, which has become a global ...

Iraq's Karbala is known as a religious pilgrimage site, visited by millions of worshippers, but shisha-smokers revere it for a different reason: its signature wooden waterpipes. About 120 kilometres ...

The sweet smelling tobacco is gaining in popularity, but most people who smoke it in cafes are unaware of the potential risks. You might call it shisha in Egypt and Sudan, nargile in Turkey and Syria ...

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 safer ...