Looks Like Zig-Zag's Safe After All: Shisha/Hookah Smoking Much Worse Than Cigarettes

Yeah, did you ever see how much smoke people exhale after inhaling on one of these? I saw a group of women with a big family in the park last weekend stinking the joint up on the their family picnic with a Shisha.

Thanks for helping publicize this.

As will all news articles, I'm skeptical about the research results. The media can twist and turn anything towards their goals. Check the facts before making a claim.

All these "facts" are wrong. for one, a hookah is not a shisha, shisha is the tobbaco smoked out of it, 2, the government must approve all warning labels on tobbaco products before it is published. on the warning label of a box of shisha it says 0% tar and .05% nicotine. and to isabelle, the reason the smoke is much thicker from a hookah, or nargile as it is called in the middle east, is because it is rarely inhaled like cigerettes. The us navy did research and they said hookah smoking was worse then smoking a pack of cigerettes, but then in a different article published by them, they said that a cigerette has 20 grams of nicotine. If 1 bowl of hookah shisha contains 15 grams of tobbaco, which is the average size of a bowl, how can there be 5 unaccounted for grams of tobbaco to make it equal, let alone worse? That means there would have to be 20 grams of pure nicotine in one bowl of tobbaco that only contains 15 grams. Seing as a bowl of tobbaco only holds 3/4 of that, its physically impossible. Now say you had an oversize bowl, even if the bowl held 20 grams of tobbaco, not all of it is nicotine, theres mollases and honey, and flavouring and tobbaco which isn't pure nicotine. The fact is that there
is .75 grams of nicotine per 15 grams of hookah tobbaco. Furthermore the fact that cigs are directly burned, produces harmful carcinogens and tar whereas hookah tobbaco is heated by coal and the coal has no direct contact with the tobbaco. This produces far less carcinogens, tar and trace amounts of nicotine. In one full box of 250 grams of tobbaco, there is 12.5 grams of
nicotine (not counting whats filtered out) in one cigerette there is 20 grams.
Please tell me which is worse.

I am middle eastern, and i own multiple hookahs, and I've done my research.
if you have any questions, email me at SBAlexanian@aim.com

Shawn thats not entirely acurate. there is only .4 grams of tobacco in a cigarette. There is average of about 9 mg's of nicotine in an american cigarette and only 1-3 mg's are absorbed. I don't know about hookah smoke though... there are no studies I find credible.

Derek

Shawn said that in another article THEY published, he did not site that as a fact but as their non-factually based, biased opinion.

the thing is that anyone with a bias (including hookah smokers or anything of the sort) will use ambiguous information (otherwise known as "facts") to justify their agenda

honestly, I dont need to be told what to do by anyone and these anti-drug, anti-smoking groups are attempting to outlaw substances which has been proven by marijuana and alcohol prohibition to cause EXTREME problems because illegal substances are produced and distributed by whom? drug cartels. These drug cartels cause violence and death for the sole means of profit, and all of it could be ended by government regulation and social tolerance of people's life choices.

Good job, you facist mother fuckers attempting to push religion and morals on the majority of people who don't give two shits about it.

Shawn said that in another article THEY published, he did not site that as a fact but as their non-factually based, biased opinion.

the thing is that anyone with a bias (including hookah smokers or anything of the sort) will use ambiguous information (otherwise known as "facts") to justify their agenda

honestly, I dont need to be told what to do by anyone and these anti-drug, anti-smoking groups are attempting to outlaw substances which has been proven by marijuana and alcohol prohibition to cause EXTREME problems because illegal substances are produced and distributed by whom? drug cartels. These drug cartels cause violence and death for the sole means of profit, and all of it could be ended by government regulation and social tolerance of people's life choices.

Good job, you facist mother fuckers attempting to push religion and morals on the majority of people who don't give two shits about it.

Shawn said that in another article THEY published, he did not site that as a fact but as their non-factually based, biased opinion.

the thing is that anyone with a bias (including hookah smokers or anything of the sort) will use ambiguous information (otherwise known as "facts") to justify their agenda

honestly, I dont need to be told what to do by anyone and these anti-drug, anti-smoking groups are attempting to outlaw substances (which has been proven by marijuana and alcohol prohibition to cause EXTREME problems because illegal substances are produced and distributed by whom? drug cartels). These drug cartels promote violence and death for the sole means of profit, and all of it could be ended by government regulation and social tolerance of people's life choices.

Good job, you facist mother fuckers attempting to push religion and morals on the majority of people who don't give two shits about it.

This is BS. I keep hearing this anti hookah insanity - stuff like this is easily disproven. While the smoke that is consumed from the tobacco might be like 20 cigarettes of volume, this doesn't take into account the water filtration.

Having smoked cigars, e-cig's, hookahs, and cigarettes... I can say that there is a HUGE difference. If I smoke (inhale) a few cigarettes, I feel it. My chest is tight, I feel bad. Yet I can smoke a Hookah for an hour, get up and jog... walk... climb some stairs - with no impact to my lungs or body.

How would that be logically possible, if indeed it was 20 cigarettes. I'm not the exception either... it's common and one of the main reasons people enjoy Hookah smoking - not feeling the effects of the smoke.

I'm sure some anti smoking nutter will jump in and throw some odd throeries, but the real truth is, as long as people spin lies for an agenda (such as saying smoking hookah is like smoking 20 cig's) then the people who actually smoke will just feel all the info is hype and wrong info.