Dodgey Article

[amnite]

"Cigarette smokers average eight to 12 puffs over a five- to seven-minute period. Hookah smokers, on the other hand, have longer periods of inhalation, lasting 20 to 80 minutes, with 50 to 200 puffs taken. Based on the amount of smoke being inhaled, the typical hookah smoking session can be the equivalent of inhaling 100 or more cigarettes."
Source: http://media.www.kykernel.com/media/storag...e-2943315.shtml

inhaling 100 or more cigarettes Thats the most stupid thing I've heard, dont ya fink a 100 is a little too much.. its highlighting the fact from my other post about the WHO organasiation... now every article i read has them refferenced "In 2005, the World Health Organization published findings on water pipe tobacco..." Edited September 8, 2007 by amnite

[EternalSoil]

anybody whop has ever smoked cigarettes will tell you they wouldnt want to smoke 3 in a row. Bad chain smokers may do this, but they dont smoke each cigarette as often and they usually dont go from one to another so quick. I personally smoked 2 cigarettes in a row and got so sick and i had been smoking for over a year. cigarettes are worse than shisha.

[Jubs]

I don't know the facts about how it affects you, but I have to agree it's totally different as I am a smoker and have smoked for about 12 years off and on ( I have quit for a year or two a few times ). I don't get that feeling that feeling I get from too many cigarettes when I smoke hookah.

I think they are mostly talking about actually the smoke itself more than the nicotine though. I can see that I definitely don't smoke a cigarette the same way I smoke a hookah. Meaning I don't take huge drags off my smoke like I do with a hookah.

I think that is the point they are making not so much the actual way it effects you in other ways. I smoke different things in different ways, I don't smoke hookah the same way I smoke a cigarette. I can see where the amount of actual smoke of a 100 cigarettes is coming from because one good pull off the hookah of fluffy thick smoke is definitely close to the amount of smoke 1 cigarette would produce.

[amnite]

the article means 1 session = 100 cigarettes (tar/health dangers) i think Edited September 8, 2007 by amnite

[Brownman18]

WHO did genetic testing in India/China in the rural areas in the 80's then we had a massive out break of "future diabetics"..... to buy the good old pharmaceuticals crap.. thank god natural foods treated it and it never occured or maybe it was never going to occur just a case for pushing drugs on people.

That organization can go to hell IMo it reports to the U.S Depart of Defence, im not saying because it's US its bad but they have done alot of bad dealings, and anywere they go diseases and crap follow suite. Polio theories in nigeria after WHO involvement.. BAD BAD organization.

[The King]

If i smoke 1 cig i feel like shit, 100 would feel like death

[SafeSearchOff]

anyone see "thank you for smoking?"

that guy was a cig smoker, and they put like 8 nic patches on him, and he was hospitalized. if 100 cigs = 1 hookah, we = dead by now.

[The King]

anyone see "thank you for smoking?"

that guy was a cig smoker, and they put like 8 nic patches on him, and he was hospitalized. if 100 cigs = 1 hookah, we = dead by now.

Yeah I saw that movie... it was actually pretty good... But yeah if a hookah is like 100 cigs, then how come we aren't all gettin really sick after a session...thats BS

[SafeSearchOff]

if anyone were to smoke 100 cigs in an hour, you'd be pretty dead. try power dragging 2 or 3 cigs in a row.

[mdl]

That article seemed like a plug for their classes. I'm sorry but you cannot write an unbiased article with a plug for classes in it.

"The next free class series begins Sept. 18, and meets from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. every Tuesday for 13 weeks. For more information about the class, call 288-2327 or visit the health department's Web site (www.lexingtonhealthdepartment.org)."

I have no doubt that smoking hookah can be harmful, but until an actual EXPERIMENT is done with statistical analysis, I will not believe what a single article says about the severity of the affects on our health. One last thing that bothers me is that Dr. Melinda Rowe doesn't cite a source to where she acquired this WHO study from.

[Foos]

This topic has been brought up plenty of times here before and I think it means the volume of smoke equals 100 cigs. They cant possibly believe that 100 cigs is equal to the same amount of bad shit as one hookah session.

[Johnny_D]

This topic has been brought up plenty of times here before and I think it means the volume of smoke equals 100 cigs. They cant possibly believe that 100 cigs is equal to the same amount of bad shit as one hookah session.

Bad Science at best I'm afraid

it's been banded about a lot - even the WHO quotes something similar - so the anti smoking brigade have picked up on it.

As some of the fellows pointed out above - there is no way you could smoke 100 cigarettes without being ill.

JD