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How can hookah's give off more carbon monoxide than ciggies?

I don't get how they can say it is worse than ciggs ... aren't there like 1-2K chemicals per cigarette?

I just don't understand how hookah could even come close to comparing ...
anyways I just came across this while surfing the web ...

http://www.hahmed.com/blog/2006/05/23/hook...bacco-industry/
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QUOTE (hookah hippie @ Feb 11 2008, 07:18 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Wow, when will people actually do research and talk about the actual research instead of claiming some crap


I don't get why they say hookah tobacco contains 2-4% nic per gram. Where do they all get this info from? Every hookah tobacco I have ever tried has always said .5% . WHATS THE DEAL WITH ALL THESE RESEARCH ARTICLES THAT DON'T SEEM TO MAKE SENSE !!!
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QUOTE (Canon @ Feb 11 2008, 07:24 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
i smoke hookah all the time, i tried one puff of a cigarette recently and it was addicting, much more then hookah smoke.. so trying to say that hookahs have 2-4% nicotine is BS


Oh I know, 2-4% is a complete lie. And I mean if you are smoking 2 hour sessions at a time once a day, I mean I would think that is pretty bad, but I mean Give us some testing information. What tobacco was used, how it was set up, how it was tested, yada yada yada, and then maybe I will believe them. But when they just throw out ubserd numbers it aggravates me, and I feel like they just want the world to be tobacco free.
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QUOTE (mattarios2 @ Feb 11 2008, 04:11 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
How can hookah's give off more carbon monoxide than ciggies?

I don't get how they can say it is worse than ciggs ... aren't there like 1-2K chemicals per cigarette?

I just don't understand how hookah could even come close to comparing ...
anyways I just came across this while surfing the web ...

http://www.hahmed.com/blog/2006/05/23/hook...bacco-industry/


It's bullshit. It's funny that it makes no mention of how the shisha was prepared, how much was used, coals, bowl setup, etc. I could setup a bowl and burn the whole damn thing to ashes and get skewed results as compared to a properly setup bowl where the shisha is slowly "cooked," NOT burned.
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I posted a super long comment on that site. I think it is awaiting approval. Anyways I have done lots of personal research and including all my facts in my comment. I hope they don't just pass it off... I hope they post it. They are complete idiots and most of that stuff was certainly made up.
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"First of all, the tobacco used in hookah consists of 2-4% nicotine, compared to 1-3% in cigarettes. After a single 45 minute smoking session, nicotine levels in the blood rose 60 fold (1.11-60.31 ng/mL) and cotinine rose well over 50 fold (0.79-51.95 mg/mL)."

This statement right here is proof that they are lieing and either altered their studies or simply blatantly lied in their research. There is NO WAY they can get 2.4% nicotine especially when the box says .05-.5%. legally the boxes cant change the percentage to target consumers. Either these people added extra heat to create more nicotine or they simply are the lieing bastards they are. This is just another gay bashing thing towards hookah. they are retarded lol_hitting.gif wallbash.gif angry.gif wry.gif sad.gif
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What if they measured the nicotine in the smoke? I'm just making this up as I go, but

what if hookah smoke has more nicotine % that cig smoke because it filters out most of the tar? Cigarette smoke has a bunch of tar and other chemicals added, is it possible that hookah smoke may have a higher nicotine %?
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I'v been surrounded by hookah for all of my life. its apart of my culture i have family in the middle east and what not... and never IN MY LIFE HAVE I HEARD OF A PERSON GETTING CANCER FROM HOOKAH!!...

people here are so weird they hear tobacco and they get all scared and shit..these "studies" are all flawed they dont use the tobacco we use.

even my friends give me shit about smoking...lighten the f*ck up... My great grandfather smoked the old school "dirt" style tobacco for all 80 some odd years of his life...he died of natural causes...

silent killer my ass...
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QUOTE (supersubby @ Feb 11 2008, 10:20 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I'v been surrounded by hookah for all of my life. its apart of my culture i have family in the middle east and what not... and never IN MY LIFE HAVE I HEARD OF A PERSON GETTING CANCER FROM HOOKAH!!...

people here are so weird they hear tobacco and they get all scared and shit..these "studies" are all flawed they dont use the tobacco we use.

even my friends give me shit about smoking...lighten the f*ck up... My great grandfather smoked the old school "dirt" style tobacco for all 80 some odd years of his life...he died of natural causes...

silent killer my ass...


i keep hearing about this "dirt" style tobacco. what is that?
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The guys that wrote that are first year medical students... I have more training than them combined just by doing research on the computer.
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i keep hearing about this "dirt" style tobacco. what is that?
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old school stuff usually found in india and pakistan...you gotta mix the honey or molasses in it.. and put the coals directly on it.. you think tangiers is bad one hit of this and your floored
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