...Tobacco is bad stuff, and we don't know of any evidence that inhaling the stuff through water makes it safe." Dr. Samira Asma, the associate director for global tobacco control in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Office on...

...more carbon monoxide and about five times the amount of tar compared to filtered cigarettes," said epidemiologist Samira Asma at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Office of Smoking and Health. "They also contain more phenol...

...been rising, for the first time, to the level of those age 25 to 44. High school smoking rates are even higher. Samira Asma, an international analyst at the centers, said smokers are dying younger and women now tend to take up smoking more...