World health experts warned that smoking water pipes, long popular in the Middle East and North Africa and with a growing fan base elsewhere, can be more harmful than cigarettes.
"A single puff from a water pipe is nearly equal to the volume of smoke inhaled from an entire cigarette," says The Tobacco Atlas launched at the World Conference on Tobacco or Health in Abu Dhabi.
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