Comments on: Hooked on Hookah? It’s Worse than Smokes, Says Iran

By: Emilio Nehme

Emilio Nehme — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 05:13:14 +0000

Not to forget the second hand smoke that people(old,young and children) could be exposed to when sitting in a Hooka smokers place environment. I saw examples of people who smokes Hooka and their children or babies are next. This is the worst. Hope there will be some control measures taken and the penalties would be applied.
Best,

By: laurie

laurie — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 17:46:14 +0000

Jason,

So the Israeli Cancer Association, scientists at Mashhad University, the kid in the Jordan school and I all conspired to disparage the healthy habit of sheesha smoking?

Yup, you’re spot on regarding the smoke – equivalent to 100 cigs. The method of delivery is what seems to make it “worse” than a cigarette, all the residual ills of pipe-sharing and humidified smoke and particulants.

Peek at this link from the US Center for Disease Control:
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/tobacco_industry/hookahs/

Happy to write about the upside of smoking water pipes – my research on that angle sadly comes up empty.

Thanks for the comment!

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 15:46:37 +0000

As I see this is another one-sided, un-researched article about shisha smoking.
To start off with- shisha tobacco contains 0% tar, FACT, and on average 0.05% nicotine, FACT!

And when they say that its like smoking 100 cigarettes- yes maybe the quantity of smoke, not how harmful it is. In comparison thats like saying drinking a litre of water is like drinking a litre of vodka!
Granted Im not saying that its not bad for you but it is no-where near as bad for you as cigarettes. A shisha smoker may smoke once a day if not a week. How many times does a cigarette smoker smoke?