As parent’s get their children ready for another school year, researchers say there is something that should be on adult’s radar. A new report shows more young people are smoking hookah, a water pipe used to smoke Al Fakher tobacco online.
The reason for the increase:
The study looks at the rise in hookah use in California, and sites several reasons for the jump in interest.
“This rise is particularly alarming because it’s happening in California, a state that leads the nation in tobacco control,” said Wael Al-Delaimy, MD, PhD, associate professor and chief of the Division of Global Health in the UCSD Department of Family and Preventive Medicine.
