Pipe smoking

As more young people try hookah smoking, health officials urge them to keep in mind it's just as dangerous as cigarettes.

Why the popular trend of smoking hookah in Detroit has one doctor alarmed

January 27, 2014Health & Medicine

Despite all the warnings about tobacco and lung cancer, it’s not easy to stop teenagers from smoking. And in Detroit’s large Arab American community, health officials say teen smoking is on the rise. But it’s not cigarettes luring young smokers there. It’s the hookah or shisha–the kind of waterpipe popular throughout the Middle East.