Hookah smoking raises cardiovascular risk comparable to traditional cigarette smoking, study finds
August 3, 2018 by Andrew Porterfield, University of California, Los Angeles
“Our findings challenge the concept that fruit-flavored hookah tobacco smoking is a healthier tobacco alternative. It is not,†said Mary Rezk-Hanna, the study's lead author. Credit: Jan Kromer/Flickr
In direct contradiction to marketing efforts claiming that hookah (water pipe) smoking is less hazardous to health than cigarettes, a new UCLA study published in the American Journal of Cardiology found that just a half-hour of hookah smoking resulted in the development of cardiovascular risk factors similar to what has been seen with traditional cigarette smoking.
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