The data on the health effects from smoking cigarettes has been clear for decades. Today, tobacco use causes nearly 1 in 5 deaths each year in the U.S. While many of these deaths are cancer ...

Like cigarettes, smoking a pipe can have serious health consequences. Here, experts discuss the similarities and differences between pipe and cigarette smoking and how tobacco use increases your ...

Tobacco used in pipes is cured and contains nicotine and the same carcinogens as cigarettes. Pipe smokers are more likely to get cancer of the lungs, liver, head, and neck than nonsmokers.

It’s well-established that cigarette smoking is harmful to your health. But what about other forms of tobacco consumption, like pipe smoking? Some claim that pipe smoking is nearly risk-free.

Before long, tobacco was being celebrated for its medicinal characteristics and pipes were the vehicles of choice with which to smoke it.

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 ...

Background: Although common in many Middle Eastern countries, water-pipe tobacco smoking, commonly known as water-pipe smoking (WPS), is increasingly popular in Western cultures. The primary ...

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 ...