Hookah Is Not a Safe Alternative to Cigarettes, Research Finds
It may be popular and socially accepted in some communities — but it’s not safe.
Research 
finds that smoking tobacco through a hookah is not a safer alternative to smoking cigarettes, especially for young adults. Hookah isn’t safer than ingesting tobacco through other methods either.
One in 5 college students in the U.S. report having smoked hookah or pipe tobacco, which worries public health officials who understand the harm that nicotine has on the developing brain.