Hookah Smoking Replacing Cigarettes?

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Hookah Smoking Replacing Cigarettes?

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Young Americans are smoking fewer cigarettes, but researchers say that progress is threatened by an increasingly popular cultural import -- the tall, ornate water pipe known as the hookah.

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