Foil Concerns

[thomas]

I've read around on the web that using foil for smoking stuff can cause alzheimers disease. If thats true, then why dont more people use the hookah screen instead of foil? Now im kind of afraid to use double foil=/ but then I also read that using a screen isnt as good as double foil. Dilemma!

[OPR234]

The link between aluminum levels in your body and alzheimers disease is purely correlational, there is no cause/effect research done on this topic. I can't say much more than that, but in my opinion, there is so much aluminum contact in your everyday life that a small sheet of foil wont make much difference in anything.

[ZenSilk]

The aluminum would have to melt to be harmful.

[ioannisds]

Not to mention that foil screens are made of... ALUMINUM. Foils owns face anyways.

[HookahCulture]

Aluminum and alzheimer's is a commonly known relationship, and to deny it is pure ignorance.

First and foremost I would recommend NOT using household foil for a hookah.
Actually there are foils made for the hookah, they're micro-thin!
If you must use foil, use as thin as possible.
Head to the dollar store and get the bargain stuff and stay away from "heavy duty."

I recommend using the STEEL screen overall.

[ghostofdavid]

Just because something is common knowledge does not mean it is truth. After all, common knowledge says that pulling out is fine method of birth control and it was common knowledge that the earth was flat. I would wager to say that people haven't been smoking with foil long enough to know if it is harmful. If you are worried about smoking being harmful, just don't smoke. Period.

[Bean]

gotta go with ghost on this one. If your health is so much of a concern find another hobby.

[HookahCulture]

Hey I'm all for Darwinism...

Just trying to present ways to damage yourself SLOWER.