Correcting The Misinformation About Hookah Smoking

To avoid any misconception about me, I am just trying to find "valid" (factual) information

about the health hazards of smoking hookah ...before I smoke any, and I am surprised how easily people are convinced by this article according to the posts. Ever hear about valid, scientific proof and logic? No offense or anything but people should be more critical of what they read and not take everything (especially opinions) for a fact. So here it goes.

"Even after passing through water, the smoke produced - still contains high levels of toxic compounds like carbon monoxide, heavy metals and carcinogens. (Hookah Smoking: Is it Really Safe? by Kristin Ketteringham),High levels? Compared to what? Am I supposed to assume myself that the high levels are meant as in dangerous for our body, if so, this article is cleverly written for us to make conclusions solely based on what we think by the author's ambiguous statement. Why doesn't the author write "the smoke produced IS DANGEROUS TO HUMAN HEALTH because it ... (cited scientific data). Im sure most people associate "high amounts of 'dangerous compound' " with "dangerous to human health", but why not be more direct and state what you really want to say?

"It is in fact worse for the user." (Hookah Smoking: Is it Really Safe? by Kristin Ketteringham)

- IN FACT? So it is a fact. A very bold statement and mentioned as if the author is an expert authority indifferently stating things they know for the obvious truth in a "matter of fact" kind of way. I wish he cited it from somewhere... or did she make it up?"Recent studies indicate that hookah smokers inhale more nicotine than cigarette smokers because of the amount of smoke that is being inhaled."(hookah Smoking: Is it Really Safe? by Kristin Ketteringham)Somewhat questionable. Although more smoke is inhaled from the hookah, doesn't it get partially filtered so that the resulting amount of nicotine is less?But lets assume this statement is TRUE, and lets go on to the next statement number 4.

"A typical one-hour session of hookah smoking exposes the user to 100 to 200 times the volume of smoke inhaled from smoking a single cigarette."(hookah Smoking: Is it Really Safe? by Kristin Ketteringham), Assuming that we would also get more nicotine from a regular session of hookah... that would mean the amount of nicotine is 100 to 200 times greater for 1 session of hookah compared to 1 cigarette. For those who don't know, nicotine is quite a potent poison. The average lethal dose for a human is 40a"60 mg ,Now a single cigarette will deliver 1.5 milligrams of nicotine depending on how deeply/often the user inhales. Anyone know what 1.5 times 100 is?

The answer is 150 mg of nicotine in a single session of hookah... Uh oh? I would be dead a long time ago after that 1 hour long session of hookah.I hope you see the absurdity of the claims stated by this author in this article about smoking hookah. What it comes down to is that who ever wrote this article simply has an opinion about using hookahs, which is not very favorable. Once again, I'm not a Pro-hookah activist or anything, I'm just a person like you, who is trying to find some valid info on that, and when I see such a poorly and falsely written article for the tenth time, I have to show what kind of nonsense is trying to be passed off for valid facts.

P.S. At the end the author states that if you want to use a hookah, smoke the herbal alternative blend that doesn't contain tobacco. Whenever you take in smoke in your lungs, on way or another it is not good for you. Also, I wouldn't be so sure of this herbal alternative method anyway... I mean tobacco is herb in a way, and it has at least been proven to be bad, I wouldn't go for some new "alternative fad". It just seems like the days when a clove cigarette was thought to be a safer alternative to regular smokes.

by: alina

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