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Me and my friends have been smoking hookah for the past year now, and i was just wondering if i should stop?
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Yup thats what its lookin like..Originally Posted by GSDOUBLEU
i read that it's actually worst than smoking a cig
[h4]Hookah smoking: Is it safer than cigarettes?[/h4] [h2]Is hookah smoking safer than cigarettes? I've been told that the water used in the hookah makes the tobacco less toxic.[/h2] [h2]Answer[/h2] [h5]from Edward C. Rosenow III, M.D.[/h5]
It's a myth that hookah smoking is safer than smoking cigarettes. The tobacco is no less toxic. Hookah smokers actually inhale more tobacco smoke than do cigarette smokers because of the massive volume of smoke they inhale.
Hookah - also called narghile, shisha and goza - is a water pipe. The device has been used for centuries in the Middle East and Asia to smoke tobacco. Now, hookah bars and cafes are popping up across the United States - fueled by the growing popularity of hookah smoking among teens and young adults.
The hookah device consists of four parts:
When a smoker inhales through the tube, a pressure difference forces air past the heating source and heats the tobacco, which gives off smoke. The smoke is pulled away from the tobacco and passes through the water and into the smoke chamber - from which it is inhaled by the smoker.
- A base, or smoke chamber, which is partially filled with water
- A bowl, which contains tobacco and the heating source
- A pipe that connects the bowl to the base and dips into the water in the base
- A hose, a second tube in the pipe that does not dip into the water but opens into air in the base and allows users to inhale the hookah smoke
Although many believe that the water in the hookah filters out all the "bad stuff" in the tobacco smoke, this isn't true. According to a World Health Organization advisory, a typical one-hour session of hookah smoking exposes the user to 100 to 200 times the volume of smoke inhaled from a single cigarette. Even after passing through water, tobacco smoke still contains high levels of toxic compounds, including carbon monoxide, heavy metals and cancer-causing chemicals (carcinogens). Hookah smoking also delivers significant levels of nicotine - the addictive substance in tobacco.
The trend of hookah smoking has doctors and public health experts concerned because - despite claims to the contrary by many users - smoking from a hookah is just as dangerous as smoking cigarettes.
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/hookah/AN01265
Whatever tho, Me an some of my co-workers/friends supposed to bee hittin a hookah joint up thisweekend. I'm personally not a smoker but imma mess with it. Does anyone on here actually smoke hookah on the daily?
Originally Posted by The Genesis
Yup thats what its lookin like..Originally Posted by GSDOUBLEU
i read that it's actually worst than smoking a cig
[h4]Hookah smoking: Is it safer than cigarettes?[/h4] [h2]Is hookah smoking safer than cigarettes? I've been told that the water used in the hookah makes the tobacco less toxic.[/h2] [h2]Answer[/h2] [h5]from Edward C. Rosenow III, M.D.[/h5]
It's a myth that hookah smoking is safer than smoking cigarettes. The tobacco is no less toxic. Hookah smokers actually inhale more tobacco smoke than do cigarette smokers because of the massive volume of smoke they inhale.
Hookah - also called narghile, shisha and goza - is a water pipe. The device has been used for centuries in the Middle East and Asia to smoke tobacco. Now, hookah bars and cafes are popping up across the United States - fueled by the growing popularity of hookah smoking among teens and young adults.
The hookah device consists of four parts:
When a smoker inhales through the tube, a pressure difference forces air past the heating source and heats the tobacco, which gives off smoke. The smoke is pulled away from the tobacco and passes through the water and into the smoke chamber - from which it is inhaled by the smoker.
- A base, or smoke chamber, which is partially filled with water
- A bowl, which contains tobacco and the heating source
- A pipe that connects the bowl to the base and dips into the water in the base
- A hose, a second tube in the pipe that does not dip into the water but opens into air in the base and allows users to inhale the hookah smoke
Although many believe that the water in the hookah filters out all the "bad stuff" in the tobacco smoke, this isn't true. According to a World Health Organization advisory, a typical one-hour session of hookah smoking exposes the user to 100 to 200 times the volume of smoke inhaled from a single cigarette. Even after passing through water, tobacco smoke still contains high levels of toxic compounds, including carbon monoxide, heavy metals and cancer-causing chemicals (carcinogens). Hookah smoking also delivers significant levels of nicotine - the addictive substance in tobacco.
The trend of hookah smoking has doctors and public health experts concerned because - despite claims to the contrary by many users - smoking from a hookah is just as dangerous as smoking cigarettes.
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/hookah/AN01265
Originally Posted by UTballsitup07
no, but i smoke hookah 3 times a week
wow im gonna slow down a little bit.. but ya im a UT student. but i was at UTSA last year. i got cappedOriginally Posted by theUisinthebuildin
Smoking in general needs to be done in moderation. I used to smoke ganja, hookah, and the occasional cig. Now I have a lesion in one of my lungs. I'm not saying don't smoke because there are other more dangerous things that people do, but just be careful.
On a sidenote: UT student, Rockets fan, AND on NT? I must know you.
Originally Posted by jumpmankb
Whatever you do.. DONT ZERO YOUR HITS!!!!!!!!
My friends and I were smoking hookah and my friend Shane goes "yo I'm gonna zero this #*$$ and get mad light headed". He takes the biggest hookah hit I've ever seen sucking mad hard and keeping all the smoke in. Next thing you know his eyes roll back in his head and he falls head first onto the hookah. All my friends were dying laughing at first thinking he was joking but when we realized he was serious we all rushed to pick him up off the ground and brush the sparks from the coal off his clothes. He was like wth is going on when we picked him up because he BLACKED OUT for about 10 seconds. HE WAS CHOKED OUT BY A HOOKAH, basically. The hookah coal burnt a hole through his brand new yankees fitted he just got that day. If he wasn't wearing the hat he would've f'd his head up.
It was pretty messed up at the time but looking back now. Straight
Fixed.Originally Posted by Vic Vega
i never understood the hype of smoking hookah
Originally Posted by Vic Vega
i never understood the hype of smoking hookah
Originally Posted by The Genesis
Yup thats what its lookin like..Originally Posted by GSDOUBLEU
i read that it's actually worst than smoking a cig
[h4]Hookah smoking: Is it safer than cigarettes?[/h4] [h2]Is hookah smoking safer than cigarettes? I've been told that the water used in the hookah makes the tobacco less toxic.[/h2] [h2]Answer[/h2] [h5]from Edward C. Rosenow III, M.D.[/h5]
It's a myth that hookah smoking is safer than smoking cigarettes. The tobacco is no less toxic. Hookah smokers actually inhale more tobacco smoke than do cigarette smokers because of the massive volume of smoke they inhale.
Hookah - also called narghile, shisha and goza - is a water pipe. The device has been used for centuries in the Middle East and Asia to smoke tobacco. Now, hookah bars and cafes are popping up across the United States - fueled by the growing popularity of hookah smoking among teens and young adults.
The hookah device consists of four parts:
When a smoker inhales through the tube, a pressure difference forces air past the heating source and heats the tobacco, which gives off smoke. The smoke is pulled away from the tobacco and passes through the water and into the smoke chamber - from which it is inhaled by the smoker.
- A base, or smoke chamber, which is partially filled with water
- A bowl, which contains tobacco and the heating source
- A pipe that connects the bowl to the base and dips into the water in the base
- A hose, a second tube in the pipe that does not dip into the water but opens into air in the base and allows users to inhale the hookah smoke
Although many believe that the water in the hookah filters out all the "bad stuff" in the tobacco smoke, this isn't true. According to a World Health Organization advisory, a typical one-hour session of hookah smoking exposes the user to 100 to 200 times the volume of smoke inhaled from a single cigarette. Even after passing through water, tobacco smoke still contains high levels of toxic compounds, including carbon monoxide, heavy metals and cancer-causing chemicals (carcinogens). Hookah smoking also delivers significant levels of nicotine - the addictive substance in tobacco.
The trend of hookah smoking has doctors and public health experts concerned because - despite claims to the contrary by many users - smoking from a hookah is just as dangerous as smoking cigarettes.
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/hookah/AN01265