Pipes shedding stodgy image after decades of decline. Handsome hand made pipes by Richard Lewis, a Minneapolis pipe maker and seller. Courtesy George Lewis — -- Pipe smoking had long gone the way ...

While cigarette smoking is still a leading cause of preventable death, the last 50 years have witnessed tremendous strides in curbing the disease-causing practice. But in a scientific statement ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . There is evidence that water pipe tobacco or hookah smoking may present risk for CVD, but further research is ...

New data from the U.S. Government Accountability Office show that smokers are responding to the 2009 increase in federal taxes on cigarettes and roll-your-own (RYO) tobacco by purchasing more pipe ...

A 2009 law that raised federal taxes on tobacco products to discourage smoking triggered a market shift to pipe tobacco and large cigars, costing the U.S. Treasury billions in lost revenue, according ...

(Reuters Health) - High levels of benzene, a chemical in crude oil and gasoline, are present in hookah smokers and nonsmokers after they attend social events where the water pipes are used, a new ...

Over the past several years, we have seen a concerted effort to curtail, if not eliminate smoking. The Surgeon General’s 1964 report raised the concerns regarding the dangers of smoking, yet people, ...