[QUOTE="mrbojangles25"][QUOTE="krazyorange"] [QUOTE="JackMcSexbeard"]Ive only smoked a few cigerettes in my life, not a big fan. However I very much enjoy Shisha/Hookah and Cigars.chrisrooR
I go to a big college and its always the nerds that do it. i've never been able to take it seriously, but the couple times I've tried it hasn't been so bad. Something I could get into perhaps.
I love hookah, its so good and it doesnt give you headaches and its not even 99% as bad as cigs for your lungs.
Plus, hookah is a pain to setup lol so you dont smoke as frequently.
God, I want to bust mine out right now but I have no tobacco...nothing more relaxing than chilling with some tea and smoking some nice flavored hookah...ahhhhhh
Uhh....yes...yes it is :|.
"When you smoke from a hookah, you inhale flavored tobacco from a hose that is attached to an ornate pipe, which is usually made out of glass or clay. There's water in the bottom, which filters the smoke leading people to believe hookahs are safer than smoking cigarettes, but they're terribly mistaken.
The problem is that hookah users tend to inhale far more smoke than cigarette smokers. More smoke means higher levels of nicotine, carbon monoxide, and other nasty chemicals. In a study published by the World Health Organization, they found that an average cigarette smoker took 8 to 12 puffs, and inhaled 0.5 to 0.6 liters of smoke over five to seven minutes. A hookah smoker may take anywhere from 20 to 200 puffs in one night, and each puff equals about one liter of smoke each. That means one hookah smoking session could equate to smoking 40 to 400 cigarettes. Yikes!"
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I dont know where you get your information from but that study is making a lot of assumptions.
I dont doubt that hookah smokers take in more volume of smoke and air than smokers do (you sort of breathe hookah smoke , with cigs you kinda squeeze just the smoke in) but you cant assume that more volume = more smoke.
Furthermore, tobacco in cigarettes is completely different from tobacco used in hookah.
Hookah tobacco = nice, fresh tobacco covered in flavoring
Cigarette tobacco = specialized, addictive strains of tobacco treated with god knows what.
With that said, there is very little balanced research (most research has been done by anti-smoking agencies) on smoking hookah, so I will present some first-hand experiences:
1. I have never seen anyone cough or vomit from smoking hookah. The first time you smoke a cigarette, it is awful; many people cough, get dizzy, and I have even seen a couple folks throw up. Yet I have seen people with "virgin" lungs smoke hookah and not have any of those symptoms.
2. As I said before, volume inhaled does not equal more smoke inhaled. Next time you see a hookah, look at the bowl. Now, you hardly ever fill it to capacity and you never pack it down. As a result, there might be three or four cigarettes-worth of tobacco in there. So again, I say that you physically cant inhale more smoke because there is not enough material there.
3. Hookah is water filtered. Now I will be honest, water filtering does not do much filtering, it is mostly a process to cool the smoke. But it does do some filtering, namely of the heavier tar compounds and other water-soluble chemicals native to tobacco.
4. Hookah is frequently smoked as a social activity. This means that a group of people (sometimes two, sometimes as many as six in my experience) share the hoses. As a result, people consume less. Furthermore, people dont smoke hookah four times a day; most frequent hookah smokers might do it a few times a week.
So maybe my 99% healthier was a bit of an exageration, so I will instead say that a 40-minute Hookah session split between two or three people is a lot healthier than smoking a pack a day.
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