Clouds of sickly sweet blackberry smoke are billowing out of Isaac Doss' mouth. He takes a long draw from the bubbling hookah and passes the pipe to Kara Brick.

Three years after the state banned indoor smoking in public places, Chicago-area hookah lounges are hotter than ever, packing in a new crop of aficionados to puff on ancient communal water pipes.

Hookah smoke as toxic as cigarettes, but users not always aware. Published: Oct. 04, 2018, 1:24 p.m. Brian Forest of Holyoke at Le Souk Hookah Lounge and Restaurant in downtown Springfield.

These cops were supposed to be preventing shootings — but instead they were just blowing smoke. A pair of NYPD officers posted up on a Bronx street corner to deter shootings amid the city&#82… ...

Smoking hookah tobacco negatively impacts heart rate and blood pressure and connections have been made between smoking the waterpipes regularly and increased risk of coronary artery disease, ...

He’ll keep alcohol off the menu, but he’s decided to keep hookah smoking as an option, and Clouds will remain open late to attract that crowd. The new sign will read “Clouds: Food-Hookah-Fun.” ...

Compared with a single cigarette, smoking hookah for “one session” delivers 25 times the tar, 125 times the smoke, 2.5 times the nicotine, and 10 times the carbon monoxide, according to ...

According to the National Institutes of Health, a single session of hookah smoking "delivers 1.7 times the nicotine, 6.5 times the carbon monoxide and 46.4 times the tar of a single cigarette." In ...

Smoking tobacco through a hookah is a pastime gaining popularity among the college crowd, but many mistakenly believe that using the fragrant water pipe is less harmful than smoking cigarettes. In a ...

Cigarette smoking may have earned a reputation as an unhealthy, cancer-causing pastime, but water pipes seem to have largely evaded the stigma. Study: Hookah no safer than cigarettes, just ...

The hookah and its use as a calming, recreational tool goes back at least to the 17th century, but Reza Bavar’s love of the pipe goes back to 2001. It’s a love that drove Bavar to found Kaloud ...