Comments on: Facts and myths about smoking hookah

By: Courtney

Courtney — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 09:49:17 +0000

I actually own my own hookah an i haven’t had any problems but i would like to know if it would harm any dental work?? I had some laser gum surgery the other day and i am just hoping that i can still smoke hookah and drink soda. I know the soda has nothing too do with this situation but my big issue right now is my hookah can i use it when i have already had my surgery done and taken care of?? The dental surgery was done for something called Periodontal Gum Disease but i really want to know if i can still use my hookah or not.

By: aj

aj — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 03:11:49 +0000

ok well im an avid hookah smoker and when the person such as myself or the people i smoke with make the bowl it lasts a lot longer than 20 puffs even with 4+ people so their count was wrong to begin with so of course the rest of the math is going to be off and hookah is the new thing to try to get around the anti-smoking things going around now so of course people are going to try anything possible to get people not to try it lol but i truly believe hookah is better for you then cigs and i have smoked both and hookah always leaves me feeling good and not needing to cough my lungs out when ever i walk even the slightest distance

By: Artemis

Artemis — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:01:43 +0000

Actually everyone , this articles that you read are not true at all, they are peer-reviewed which means they contain a lot of false information and contain a lot of errors. Also heres a fun fact, Hookah didnt originate in Middle East it actually originated in East Africa, WHO or World Health Organization are a bunch of anti-tobacco idealists that never did any research on shisha tobacco , they only feed of false information, non of them tried hookah before so thats why they assume is bad for you because it is a “tobacco” product and it contains nicotine, and for everyones information nicotine is not bad for you its a stimulant like energy drink, also a 100g bag of shisha contains 0.05 nicotine, the whole bagg!!! one bowl almost has nothing. Also when you smoke hookah , the shisha or tobacco is not being burned at all but yet heated in great extent , the temperature in the bowl of hookah reaches 200 degrees C and does not exceed that temperature , when you burn a cigarette the cherry of the cigarette reaches up to 900 degrees C, as you can see the difference, this also makes a big difference in how much chemicals gets released the greater the heat the more bad stuff you smoke. Also its almost impossible to get second hand smoke from hookahs because the smoke doesnt pass over like the cigarettes smoke. The American Lung Association and the French INPES (Institut National pour la Prevention et l’Education a la Sante) resorted to faking (photo-montages) posters and images showing hookahs emitting passive smoke [see right and below]. Of course, they do not. The only reason that anti-tobacco companys are so blinded by this is because hookahs are still very new to the western culture, and hookah has been smoked even before Jesus walked this earth and not a single death has been reported or even cancer. They only thing that makes it scary for people in thinking its bad is the large volume of smoke inhaled, i agree you inhale a lot more smoke in one sitting than a single cigarette but nobody takes a hit of hookah every single second or frequently like the cigarette smokers do, people do smoke hookah with friends at hookah bars and theres more talking going on than smoking so people dont inhale as much as the bias articles writers think people do. I know this is too much but I dont know about the other hookah bars but the one i work at we clean EVERYTHING thoroughly and we use mouth peaces. So before you read another false article shove this information down their throats

By: Nazia Ruby

Nazia Ruby — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 15:21:53 +0000

Any vices are pleasant experiences aswell as considered morally incorrect. I would not want to speak for or against any habit.

The problem here is that hookah is introduced to teeangers and it may lead to smoking as a habit. It is important for the teenagers to know the hazards as they are prone to getting used to it. Adults are usually careful with their addiction.

By: Sisco

Sisco — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:11:59 +0000

I just don’t understand where these facts are provided from, or how they were obtained. The largest issue that we are faced with here, is that this article has failed to mention the environment in which these studies were done, so everyone is assuming that these are biased and false statistics. I personally felt like some things in the article weren’t correst, but at the same time, I have no hard evidence to prove my point so I won’t say it.

I smoke hooka once a week with my friends, and I always said it was better than any other form of tobacco because it was broiled, not burnt, and filtered through water, which to me would normally eliminate most of the bad things that come with tobacco apart for the nicotine. This however, is just my own rationalizing of what the process is. All I’m asking for is for some objective, non-biased reports on the smoking of shisha through a hooka.

By: Nic

Nic — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 19:55:45 +0000

I honestly don’t think this person has ever smoked out of a hookah. If you have smoked cigs and smoked hookah you can tell the difference in the nicotine. With cigs you can get a gnarly head rush if you don’t smoke regularly, sometimes even if you do. If you smoke a hookah you don’t even get close to the same amount of nicotine. Honestly I don’t even feel it at all. The only head rush you get is if you smoke a lot at once. That will just cause your brain a lack of oxygen. A total different type of head rush. All these “facts” stated were really ridiculous and just straight up wrong.

By: craig

craig — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 01:40:05 +0000

So what happens when I load it with Mary Jane?

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 04:41:11 +0000

I’ve spent hours and hours online looking for information about Hookah, because my girlfriend is REALLY into it. I’ve found without exception scientists, doctors, and hospital sites (many middle eastern with more data) explaining how it is equally or vastly more dangerous than cigarettes, and lots of non-scientists and non-doctors stating un-cited statistics. I’m completely objective here (I smoke cigs…trying to quit)….I say we listen to our smartest minds and resist arrogance and ignorance.

By: Jake

Jake — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 05:15:07 +0000

I can tell you ive been smoking since i was in track in high school and i ran a easy 7 min mile and i can still do it at the gym every day and its been four years, oh and i can quit no problemo, had to do it for month just for a bet, never had a craving, but i did do it once the bet was off, why? Cause i love it, scientist say the big bang came from small particals and gases, where did those come from, they dont realy know if this is all the truth so why beleive what you cant prove?

By: Jacob

Jacob — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 22:16:20 +0000

Alright hookah vs cigs, take 2 people who have never smoked a day in their life, sit them down one with a hookah and one with cigs have them both smoke them for 1 hour, the person that is smoking the cigs will become sick and will probably not make it the whole hour. while the person that is smoking hookah will have no problem with smoking for an hour. how is that for a comparison.