Health Concerns

[Xeft]

are you smoking washed or unwashed tobacco?
i think i read somewhere that 1 hookah session is like having 8 cigarettes, which i personally dont believe. i really dont know, but thats the stats i got.

I also read an article but wasn't anything like that. The doctor was talking about some checmical or something and comparing how much of that chemical was in one cig and a bowl of shisha that last from 10 mins to an hour. The cig had like 1.0% or w/e and the shisha had like 60.0%. I was like...HOLY SHIT!

Then I decided to make a film about this stuff...hopefully when I'm done you all can learn from it

[Brownman18]

i used to run like 4 km a day

i can still run 4 km a day and no visible differnece

i smoke shisha 5-6 bowls a day in the summer, 2 a day otherwise

i work out everyday

never noticed any ill fated health effects

im going on 21 in november.

i enjoy it anyway.. and i dont drink much anymore now that i do hookah.

its improved my health anyway i look at it

god do i remember the hangovers before argile lol.

[amnite]

I agree, I have no difference, I used to smoke a bowl every month-couple of months... my lungs do feel wierd when I smoked shisha but the next day I feel normal. I stick with my belief, Hookah filters out most of the tar (80% accourding to research) I'd say above 60%. Shisha smoke is so light (think of it like water-vapour/steam) I seroisly doubt giving hard inhales will mess your lungs up except ur lungs arent used to it obvoisly since u inhale oxygen all ur life, the temperature u heat ur hookah at with charcoals does not allow any, if not most of the cancer causing agents do not form/the tar produced is at low temperatures who knows wheather the remaining that gets passed the filter-system is really that harmful Edited August 19, 2007 by amnite

[Rani]

I have been smoking Nargila for a while just wondering how much (approximately) is a Nargila equivalent to cigarettes?

a lot of people tell me different things.

I've been smoking about a year now. Maybe 4 bowls a week. Sure there's nicotine in both, but shisha is missing the tar which I understand is the really bad stuff. I will say as a singer that it hasn't effected my sustain at all. Not yet anyway. The good news is that I understand if you pay attention to changes in your breathing, taking a break for a few months will give your body a chance to start recovering. The human body is pretty amazing. Given half a chance it can heal itself from a lot. Now that I've decided I really like Tangiers I might stick with it not only for flavor but because with no aritificial color, I figure that's one less chemical my body has to deal with. On the other hand, everybody dies of someting. I'd rather it were from years of doing something I love doing than never smoke and find out I'm dying of something else anyway.

'Rani