The bill titled the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, S...

The state government of Karnataka has imposed a ban on hookah bars, including the sale and promotion of hookah and its related ingredients....

The government plans to increase the age limit for buying tobacco items to 21 years and ban hookah bars due to concerns over their addictiv...

To owners of hookah joints, this is moral policing. According to them, the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act (COTPA) allows for smo...

A division bench of Justices G S Kulkarni and R N Laddha in its order dated April 24 noted that hookah cannot be one of the items being ser...

On October 2 this year, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan had announced that hookah lounges will not be allowed to function in the state...

Justice Rekha Palli, who was hearing a batch of pleas by several restaurants and bars against the prohibition on the sale or service of her...

Punjab is the third state in the country after Gujarat and Maharashtra where hookah bars or lounges were banned through law.

Typically, a hookah session can last for several hours, increasing the levels of nicotine and other toxins in the body.

The restaurants and bars, in pursuance to the notices issued to them, informed a bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar th...

A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar issued warrants against around 25 hookah bars which were asked to file their resp...

A recent notification from the ministry of health dated May 23 completely prohibits use of hookah even in smoking zones also.

Moreover, hotels, restaurants and airports will now have to prominently display a board at the entrance of designated smoking areas with th...

Many college students in the US consider hookah smoking safer than smoking cigarettes, despite emerging evidence otherwise, a new study has...

The law, as it stands, prohibits smoking in all public places except in specially designated smoking rooms in hotels, restaurants and airpo...

People who smoke a hookah or inhale secondhand hookah smoke may be exposing themselves to a cancer-causing chemical, a new study has warned.

Traditional hookah and chillum are more injurious to health than cigarette, a study has said.