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Smoking hookah or cigarettes/cigars - are they all as unhealthy or bad for you?
We have read many conflicting reports as to the differences in hookah smoking vs. cigarette smoking. We highly encourage you to do your own research and educate yourself about what you are putting into your body. Shisha is still a tobacco product and should be treated as such. If you are interested in doing a joint hookah study or have some valid sources on the subject please comment or email us.
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http://cypresstrees.blogspot.com/2008/01/ny-times-wrong-again.html
This is an article I published earlier this year. I would be happy to allow you all to republish it here or take the links. Thanks!
-ATY
May 26th, 2008 at 10:25 amI’m very interested in doing a joint hookah study, i’ve googled it so much for the countless arguements that occur on me smoking hookah. I feel it’s way better then cigs or cigars and in theory your not smoking the tabacco directly but none the less nicotine is being consumed thus we get the buzz or feeling light headed.. So haha if there is a way to do a complete study I definately want to join in!
May 31st, 2008 at 8:10 pmAn interesting part of that kind of study, or maybe just a commentary portion of it, would be one of the cultural components of hookah smoking. In particular, the “competition” between ciar bars and hookah bars in their popularity and the diversity of people that each attracts. I was doing some cigar research and stumbled upon a hookah site that had a wonderfully named product adverstised - Crazy Monkey Hookah Freak Modern Tobacco. I figured that even if the product wasn’t all that great, at least its name is a marketing coolness.
June 19th, 2008 at 2:21 amI have been smoking hookah pretty much everyday for the past year 1-3 bowls a day with romman, naklah, and tangies in a funnel bowl out of a 4 hose auto seal. If a study involved me or my friends i can only imagine what my lungs look like or how “healthy” I am.
June 19th, 2008 at 3:03 amI have heard a lot of different arguments about smoking hookah, i have done it every day for probably about the last two years due to the fact that it can be a very enjoyable thing to do outside or while watching a movie. I noticed that on every package of sheesha, it says .5% nicotine and 0% tar. This makes me feel much better due to the fact that i hear a lot of people saying how it’s like smoking a bunch of cigarettes for every bowl you smoke. If that were true i would be having some serious lung problems as of now, and in addition, so would the middle east. Cigarettes are full of multiple poisons, such as rat poison, and great quantities of nicotine. People smoke this directly, although with sheesha, you don’t get a lot of ashes in the bowl, you get the burn tobacco that you DIDN’T inhale directly, just the pulverized fruit pulp. Well, that’s my thought on it, although if i were to find that it was extremely dangerous as in, if someone checked my lungs, i would probably have to cut back… a little
June 22nd, 2008 at 4:50 amWhen you smoke a hookah you’re effectively heating the tobacco and inhaling the vapor, which looks “smoky” because of the glycerin in shisha rather than burning the tobacco and inhaling the smoke along with all of the other awful things in cigarettes/cigars. The “smoke” feels and looks really dense and is hard for some people to handle because it is mostly vapor rather than conventional smoke…similar to the “smoke” that comes out of smoke machines in clubs. Glycerin is the same ingredient in common smoke fluid for those machines and is completely harmless to inhale. Shisha allows you to get a nicotine buzz, (nicotine has a boiling point of 477 degrees F so you’re literally cooking the nicotine out of the tobacco without burning it, without the tar.
August 7th, 2008 at 5:15 pm