Hookah smoke has negative effects

Common Sense

Tue Oct 25 2011 08:36

The water in a hookah isn't there to filter anything. The water cools the vapor the user inhales. That's right.... VAPOR! When used properly, a hookah bakes, not burns the tobacco. The temperature isn't high enough to combust the tobacco and therefore no tar is produced. Compared to a cigarette, the nicotine levels are trace only. You'll get more nicotine from the patch or nicotine gum. Anyway, want to see the lack of tar production for yourself? Do one simple test ..... Take a few drags off of a hookah and blow them through a napkin. Next, take the same number of drags off of a cigarette and blow them through another napkin. Compare the two. You will find that the hookah napkin is only moist. You'll see the tar stain on the cigarette napkin. I've yet to hear one of these self-proclaimed 'experts' explain why this is... This is because they can't! They are perpetrating an anti-tobacco agenda, not scientific fact. It's like burning books one hasn't even read. I suspect that the reason there's little to no information on the long term effect of hookah smoking even though it's centuries old is because nobody has bothered because there haven't been millions or even hundreds of casually observed effects like hacking or shortness of breath. It only took a comparative fraction of this time to see all of this with long term cigarette smoking.

Anonymous

Mon Nov 1 2010 09:14

Duh it has negative effects... smoking anything does...

Why aren't you worried about more important things that Loyola engages in more? Smoking actual cigarettes? Eating processed foods? Caffeine addictions? Supporting rapists and slut-shaming rape victims? Paying thousands of dollars in tuition to a school that sliced off its best programs post-Katrina?

♥♥♥stefanie ♥♥♥

Fri Oct 22 2010 13:46

aha this is juss fun i love hookah nd sayin this on the computer is worth all of it. nd yeah smokking weed is kool too nd i loveee goin to hokkah bars at the strip in las vegas aha nd hmmmm hokkah is gewd for me it helps relaxes ppl toooo ♥♥♥

stefanie rayne

Fri Oct 22 2010 13:36

hey,,, lol smokking hookah is bom so i dont know what your talkin bout nd aye even kids nd adults do it so it cant be that bad but i guess u think that aha you can think whatever but i doubt its gunna change peoples minds this is commin from a 15 year old.XD

JezzaD

Wed Oct 20 2010 10:45

I ate four squirrels once and punched a panther in the spleen. Smoke that you queer anti-hookah nazis!
p.s. hookah is good for you, I read it in a really big leather bound book.

Mitch

Fri Oct 15 2010 03:43

I might call a hookah tonight. Don't tell my wife.

Phil Brooks

Fri Oct 15 2010 00:48

I don't smoke and people who do...are stupid.

James

Sat May 1 2010 00:59

This information, like all anti-smoking propaganda, is mostly false. I will state that hookah smoking is less healthy than NOT smoking a hookah... To say any form of smoking is completely safe is a ridiculous claim. However: Hookah contains .05% nicotine (compared to 9% of a cigarette), the water filters out the tar, and the most dangerous part of smoking cigarettes is the fact that the tobacco is not really tobacco, but rather reconstituted tobacco paper, with a bunch of crap added to it (look up how they are made). This is not the case with most shisha, which is usually natural tobacco. The same goes for pipe tobacco and cigars. I have been smoking pipes and cigars for over a year on a daily basis, yet I have no nicotine addiction (I decided not to smoke yesterday, and experienced NO withdraws, a day without smoking would REALLY get to a cigarette smoker).

Oh another fact worth noting: There is no evidence supporting claims that second hand smoke is harmful to anyone except infants. Let alone the claim that it is "as bad as" or "worse than" smoking ones-self. However, the anti-smoking campaign keeps regurgitating this without claiming any evidence (there isn't any).

Repeating something doesn't make it fact... Its just a repeated lie. Its called science: try it sometime!

Anonymous

Thu Mar 25 2010 07:06

this is wrong, hookah smoke contains 0 percent tar, no carbon monoxide and .05 percent nicotine. get your facts strait before you try to give something a bad name

Christopher Sauer

Tue Mar 16 2010 12:37

Dear Alicia Borque,
You have no idea what you are talking about. Please give us your sources. Wikipedia does not count as a source, I'm sorry. You should probably cite articles. Mmkaythanksbye.

Your name

Mon Nov 30 2009 18:48

dr. kebourquian knows best

Your name

Tue Oct 20 2009 11:23

Bias, are you kidding? This is a LETTER TO THE EDITOR. If you are so dumb as to not know that letters carry the opinion of the writer, and not "bias", then please hold your tongue. We are a Jesuit university that values civilized discourse. Part of civilized discourse is troubling yourself with getting the background information necessary to engage in that discussion.

Drew

Mon Oct 5 2009 13:21

it's really sad that this kind of stuff can be posted on the internet as if it's true. of course smoking is not good for you but if you need some dumbass telling you lies to realize that then you need stronger drugs.

Eh Ajnabi

Sun Sep 20 2009 05:25

Wow this is beyond bias, this is even beyond Fox News distortion. "Director of Counseling and Health Service" ehh.. must be a really cush job.... say whatever you want and get it put online and get paid. Haha I don't think a single thing she said about shisha is true. I don't even smoke it and I know it's bad for you but wow talk about just ignoring readily available information.

Elliot Sanchez

Thu Sep 3 2009 15:06

"For a director of a counseling service, let alone any service, your ability to articulate yourself clearly and concisely is embaressing. Go back to college and learn how to edit."

"Your facts are completely wrong. sight something please. Hookah has .5% nicotine while cigarettes have up to 9% nicotine. Also Hookah, or Shisha which is the correct term for the tobaco, contains 0.0 % tar."

I know that we've successfully raised our freshman enrollment to record levels, and I am very grateful. For the future of the university though, I pray that these young rhetoricians aren't among them.

Ashley

Tue Sep 1 2009 01:19

One of my best nights at Loyola was spent sitting around a hookah.

Your name

Thu Jul 30 2009 00:26

The fact is that inhaling any kind of smoke into your lungs is not going to be perfectly healthy. I have heard from so many people that smoking this isn't nearly as bad, but I agree that it's all about the amount of time you smoke. I'm sure there are different kinds of shesha with different amounts of nicotine in it. It all depends on what you get and who you believe. As long as you don't smoke it daily, or even weekly, it won't be as bad as someone who smokes cigarettes every day.

Charles-Harrisburg PA

Sat Jul 4 2009 15:32

"Hookah smoke CAN contain four times more nicotine than cigarettes". When you are doing a report on things be specific.

I have a Tub of Shisha on one hand stating 0.05% nicotine and in the other hand one stating 0.00% nicotine.

Guess it all depends on what you smoke ;D

exotic panda

Sat Jun 20 2009 00:03

shit is good.. i'd rather have fun now and die a year earlier when i'm 80

A Concerned Mom

Fri Jun 5 2009 10:14

Any kind of smoking is bad for you, period.