A new study, led by Dr Mohammad Boskabady of the Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Iran, has revealed that water pipe smoking affects lung function and respiratory symptoms as much as cigarette smoking. A bedouin is seen smoking a water pipe in a coffee house in Deir ez-Zor, Syria, in 1920s A water pipe, also known as a hookah, narghile, or qalyan, is a device for smoking flavored tobacco in which the smoke is passed through a water basin. Most...
