RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters Life!) - Young Americans are smoking fewer cigarettes, but researchers say that progress is threatened by an increasingly popular cultural import -- the tall, ornate ...

There’s something so wonderfully decadent about hookah-smoking. It’s a concept that originated in Eastern cultures, where taking time out from a busy work day to smoke flavored tobacco from an ornate ...

Head tipped back, Husam Al Saffar watched smoke billow from his open mouth. Upward the clouds curled, tracing a scented trail of strawberries and tobacco. The 28-year-old San Jose man puffed again on ...

Inside the ornate hookah lounge at Alexandria Mediterranean Restaurant, a foursome is smoking flavored tobacco from a water pipe. Seductive music blares onto the sidewalk, and an attractive young ...

The Rabbit Hole is a maze of sofas and sectionals, mismatched, some worn to threads in places, full of soft spots that sink low to the ground. The lighting is low and dim; the music is usually ...

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LOS ANGELES — In 2019, local business owners began gathering regularly at Arnie Abramyan’s hookah lounge on the outskirts of Los Angeles to fight a proposed statewide prohibition on the sale of ...