Changing how we talk about tobacco. While I always talk with my patients about the dangers of cigarette smoking, we often don't discuss whether they dip or smoke a pipe or cigars.

Smoking a hookah or water pipe isn't safe, either, according to the Mayo Clinic, because it contains tobacco that's no less harmful to your health than cigarettes. Pipe smoking effects on your health ...

In pipes, the tobacco sits in a bowl at the end, and a stem connects the bowl to the mouthpiece. ... Smoking pipes or cigars wreaks havoc on your mouth, contributing to gum disease, ...

Reports by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have indicated that while cigarette smoking has continued to decrease in the United States, consumption of pipe tobacco and cigars ...

A range of paraphernalia also defines the pipe smoker, and there is a much-debated art to properly filling a pipe with just the right amount of tobacco. And while pipe smoking has long since given ...

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 ...

Water-pipe smoking (WPS) is a form of tobacco consumption that is increasing on a global level at a remarkable pace (see e-Appendix 1 and Fig 1 for further details on WPS).