How Bad Is Hookah For You?

[Charley]

I look at it this way the link between smoking and cancer is like the link between gasoline and fire. gas dose not cause fire but it makes spread much faster if its already there or about to ignite on its own. smoking dose not cause cancer but it dose make it spread if its already there or about to ignite (basicly if its ment to be your going to get it if not you wont but smoking can and will make it worse and cause it to spread much faster. 90%(made up % becuase i forgot the real one lol) of us have cancer cells in our body they just dont spread or grow untill fule is added be it smoking or sunbathing or eating mcdonalds you found in your fridge at 3am. but to use the fire refrance one more time. sometimes embers wont ignite no mater how much fule is dumped on the,m other times they can lead to an exsplosion if the right fule mix is added and these cancer cells in us are basicaly just embers adding the fule of smoking may not have any effect on them othertimes it may lead to a boom.

in otherwords smoking will not cause cancer unless you already have a risk for it
but there are manny factors that put you at risk most of wich probly will not ever be found and even if your healthy with absolutly no family history of cancer you may still have the risk for it so its up to you to deside "do I pour gas on the embers and posibly feed the fire or do I set back and just look to see if the embers flare up on there own?" Edited December 3, 2007 by Charley

[erufiku]

I'd love to see some objective studies done. Right now we have a binary system with people who smoke shisha (and love it) making excuses and pointing fingers at the existing research; on the other hand, we have white lab coats that (probably) never smoked in their lives and equate any smoke to the most common source - a cigarette.

[MartialTheory]

Thats not true, even if u have no family history u still can get cancer. because everyone has a risk for cancer just some ppl with a larger chance.

cancer is basically a mutation in the DNA that enables the cell not to function correctly but cannot undergo self termination to protect the whole organism. so then who has zero chance for mutations? no one. everyone has some sort of chance for a mutation. Some things like a BRA 32 gene specifically increases ur chances for cancer dramaticly but other times it just happens because thats how mutations happens.

erufiku

I agree, like my pot head friends, they say theres nothing wrong with pot but thats only because they love it so much. so after he finally quit he told me how much it screwed him.

[NoPeace]

A while back someone left an article on my desk about how hookah is worse for you than cigarettes. im unable to find any legitamate studies or recources that compare the two. im my opinion its not nearly as bad for me!

what do you think?

The flat out truth is that yes hookah is worse for you ONLY if you smoke it like everyday or every other day. If you limit it to like once a week or once a month then you are fine. hookah sessions are much longer than smoking cigs so you get much more toxins than with one cig. also hookah has alot of additional metals in it that come from the hookah. carbon monoxide is much high but the nicotine is generally much less unless you smoke tangier or nakhla. if you dont want to really jeopardize your health i would limit it to once a week if your addicted heavily or to twice a month if your a casual smoker.

[Charley]

Thats not true, even if u have no family history u still can get cancer. because everyone has a risk for cancer just some ppl with a larger chance.

If that was to my post i was agreeing with that point
I said even if your healthy with absolutly no family history of cancer you may still have the risk.


but anyway on to this post you are right in that we will never have an unbiast study becuase there is so much anti smoking propaganda out there that 99% of all non smokers are brainwashed into beliving it and those of us who do smoke are usualy of the mindset that we dont belive it hurts us becuase we are mortal animals and as so we have an inhearent fear of death so if we are doing something that is killing us then we belive in the darkest corners of our minds that hey its alright its not that bad for us we wont die from this.

truth is eathier your a smoker or a non smoker and you will alwase lean to one end or another.