Increasing numbers of adolescents in the U.S. are gathering around hookahs — water pipes used to smoke flavored tobacco called shisha. The Monitoring the Future 2015 survey of 44,892 students found that past-year hookah use among 12th graders was approximately 20 percent. This makes it the third most common drug used, right behind alcohol and marijuana!
Smaller studies have found that 22 to 40 percent of college students had used hookahs within the past year.
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