Research Study: Results

[zeppyrkr]

-1 for nammors ..

i think there talking about hoses like the nammor? i could be wrong.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1820729...Pubmed_RVDocSum

[Bulldog_916]

CO is not harmful by itself, in the presence of oxygen. Unless you dont breath in between hits, you are likely getting a much higher dose of CO than if you breathed more between hits. The lower the level of oxygen in the presence of CO, the higher the risk associated with that environment. When exposed to a lower level of oxygen for extended periods of time, damage is more likely. I take at least 30 seconds between hits a lot of times and have felt no ill effects. You have to be disciplined in your smoking habits. Take a little bit longer between hits, adjust your environment by smoking in the open air or in a ventilated area. You wont have too much of a problem in that respect.

[mathuv]

the last line bothers me..

"These results are from small convenience samples; more detailed study of a larger group of randomly sampled U.S. waterpipe tobacco smokers will be valuable in understanding this behavior and developing effective strategies to prevent it."

I agree. I'm not quite sure why people (non-smokers or not) feel the need to control the general population's intake of products they deem "harmful". I don't understand why people always feel as though every smoker is trying to quit. I love smoking and have no intention of quitting anytime soon.

Note: This is not intended to be an attack on the poster's article, I actually thought it was pretty interesting. This is just my opinion.

i guess to many hookah smokers are chasing them down and blowing it in there faces lmao, god hookah smokers have to learn to be less extreme and just smoke in there houses ...

i dno man, dont you ever feel like goin out and takin the hookah with you on a nice day? like most of my friends had no school today so we met up in a park and smoked abit. imo, if someone can accept cigarettes then they should be able to accept hookah. i think that hookah is frowned upon because of its association with NHT use.

as much as i would like to live in a world like that , thats not the fact, many people don't accept cigarettes and thats why many places are trying to ban it in public places, people have freedom here and choice and when your smoke is going into there public space i think they should have to right to be mad. and yes the appearance of the hookah doesn't make people happy either.

there are proper places to smoke and not to smoke, don't get mad at people for not liking it. i personally don't like cigarette smoke ...

yes but what im saying is, if people can stand smelly cigarette smoke (say in a bar) they should be able to stand sweet hookah smoke

[lazria]

Interesting to say the least, although something in me takes offence at the last line the "abstract" version...

"more detailed study of a larger group of randomly sampled U.S. waterpipe tobacco smokers will be valuable in understanding this behavior and developing effective strategies to prevent it"

So they want to prevent people from enjoying their rights and smoking.... blarg

[gaia.plateau]

No, they want to prevent the propagation of the "behaviour", which would be more accurately called the "perception" that hookah is less harmful than cigarette and cigar smoking.

Still an offensive concept, given that there have been no conclusive scientific studies yet done on waterpipe smoking... but it's good to know what you're offended about.

(The notion of "preventing a behaviour" has strong overtones of fascism, in my perception).

Interesting to say the least, although something in me takes offence at the last line the "abstract" version...

"more detailed study of a larger group of randomly sampled U.S. waterpipe tobacco smokers will be valuable in understanding this behavior and developing effective strategies to prevent it"

So they want to prevent people from enjoying their rights and smoking.... blarg