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Hookah Health Hazard? 

Is a hookah pipe hazardous to your health? Tobacco and health experts will tackle that question at a day-long summit in Dearborn today.

The Arab community is trying to help raise awareness about the potential health risks of smoking fruit-flavored tobacco. 18-year-old Iptihal Nasser from Dearborn told WWJ that she smokes hookah (also known as argileh) about twice a week.

She doesn't believe that it's worse than cigarettes. "There's water, there's a filter. I don't think there's any rat poison in there or any of the stuff that cigarettes have to make you addicted. I've been smoking argileh for years and I've never gotten addicted to it like to the point where I have to smoke it," she said.

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