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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

Health & 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.

The fight is on over e-cigarettes

Health & Medicine
A man smokes next to a "No Smoking" sign in downtown Shanghai. Chinese leaders are now banned from smoking in public.

Chinese leaders are told to kick the habit

Health & Medicine

Tobacco’s Shifting Burden: From the Rich to the Poor

Health & Medicine

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Decline in smoking takes toll on tobacco farmers

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In response to reduced demand, Philip Morris abruptly cancelled the contracts of many tobacco farmers early this spring. We talk to a Kentucky farmer and a representative from the Center for Tobacco Grower Research at the University of Tennessee.

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