Namenone Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 So, someone told me that smoking a bowl once its gone cold is bad for you because the toxins are released or something, is this true? For example, if i smoke some tangiers and leave it for a hour or a day and smoke the same bowl again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattarios2 Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 umm ... i highly highly doubt it. It sounds like a load of shit to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zinite Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 Toxins are released? That doesn't even make sense. If there were toxins being released, they would be there whether the bowl was just packed or reused. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColibriDon Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 I don't know if it's bad for you or not but I've tried to relight a bowl after hours of not smoking it...do not recommend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AKammenzind Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 QUOTE (mattarios2 @ Apr 15 2009, 03:03 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>umm ... i highly highly doubt it. It sounds like a load of shit to me.+1The flavor will take a while to get going, but that's about the only difference I think... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobbs Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 I've came back to bowls after using 1 round of coals several times, letting them sit for a couple to a few hours.I'm alive, though for how much longer.. I can not be sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smoke eater Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 I hope not. I don't like to waste tobacco, so I do this all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evilded777 Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 I've done it, to no ill effect that I can see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cxc5120 Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 Perfectly fine, itll just take a little longer to get it restarted. I too like to conserve my tab when I can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antouwan Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 QUOTE (namenone1 @ Apr 15 2009, 02:59 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>So, someone told me that smoking a bowl once its gone cold is bad for you because the toxins are released or something, is this true? For example, if i smoke some tangiers and leave it for a hour or a day and smoke the same bowl again?down here in the south, this is a prime example of what we call 'horse manure' aka bullshit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chinamon Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 QUOTE (antouwan @ Apr 16 2009, 03:58 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>down here in the south, this is a prime example of what we call 'horse manure' aka bullshiti guess southerners dont go to school much?(hint: bull shit doesnt come from horses) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilikemyusername Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 what? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidglass Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 This sounds like someone trying to act like they know something.Take it from us, it doesn't release anything that isn't already released. Besides the flavor taking a while to get going you're not doing anything worse than, well, smoking. The only way this could be bad for you is if you aren't sure how charred the shisha is and you end up getting too much Co2. (with Tangiers you have nothing to worry about) But other brands make sure you know how much the bowl has been smoked first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Namenone Posted April 16, 2009 Author Share Posted April 16, 2009 Thanks for the advice everyone! saved me from chucking half a large phunnel full of tangiers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonthert Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 I will sometimes scrape the dried layer off the top, leaving the moist bottom layer and reloading the top. As to your question, I doubt it. The real question is is there one way of smoking thats safer than another way? I doubt it. The two classes of carcinogens found in tobacco smoke are pyrolysis products and naturally occurring ones. The pyrolysis chemicals are acrolein and polycyclic aromatic compunds. The naturally occurring ones are nitrosamines and radioisotopes (like Po-210, Pb-210, Bi-210, Bi-212, Ra-226, and Rn-222). Radioisotopes are scarce, but dangerous. Nitrosamines are linked to cancer, but have not been conclusively been shown to cause cancer. Additionally, nitrosamines are found in a variety of foods and environmental vectors, like well-done meat and fried foods. Presumably, for them to be dangerous, they would have to volatilize in some fashion or be directly inserted in the body (by eating or inhaling dust)...do they? I can't find one way or another, there is some mechanism for inhaling them directly from tobacco in cigarette form, but from a hookah? Nobody knows. Unless your eating hookah tobacco in your spare time, volatilization is the mechanism. Looking at the chemical structure of nitrosamines, it is likely that they are volatile. If that is the case, then leaving a bowl go cold will probably drive off MORE nitrosamines...or at least keep them the same. The same thing might be said for our cooking process or acclimating tobacco, too. Who can say? Letting the air get to these chemicals can't hurt, it could only possibly help. Its still not safe to smoke hookah, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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