Smoking Indoors And Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

[amir22]

So my friends recently learned I prefer to smoke inside rather than out, which resulted in them berating me and calling me an idiot potentially killing myself every time I smoke indoors. I use natural coals (Abu Abdo) and it was my understanding that you'd have to smoke for HOURS (like ~8) without opening a door/window or going outside to die from carbon monoxide poisoning, but my friends say the gas can linger even when I'm done and if I go to sleep shortly after I'm done smoking I could die. Can someone shine some light on this issue? Is it safe for me to smoke indoors?

Thanks.

[Allia22]

I've never heard of anyone dying smoking hookah... *shrug*

[xpimpitox]

tell your friends there full of bologna. i have smoked in my room layin in bed and didnt even bother to put out the coals, i left them on the tray and went right to bed. im still alive

[Jones]

The concentration of parts per million of carbon monoxide created by (I'm assuming your friends mean) the coal burning is nowhere near high eough to even enter your bloodstream. Unless you're in a airtight 4x4 cube. Then you'd be screwed, my condolences.

[tingjunkie]

Have your friends ever been to a hookah bar? Where multiple hookahs are going inside all at the same time?

Come on. You should have figured this one out for yourself without having to ask here.

[amir22]

Have your friends ever been to a hookah bar? Where multiple hookahs are going inside all at the same time?

Come on. You should have figured this one out for yourself without having to ask here.

I raised the hookah bar point with them and they responded "No!!! They have industrial ventilators!" which I have never noticed for myself. Either way, I was interested in getting a definite examples, perhaps some solid evidence or a link to a hookah carbon monoxide related death incident, and I am glad things are in my favor!

[tingjunkie]

No hookah bar I have been to has any special industrial ventilators. Not saying they don't exist, but I haven't seen them.

I saw a Darwin Award once where some dude kiled himself with his own farts. Apparently he slept in a tiny room with no ventilation, and...

I'm not sure I believe it, but it makes me giggle anyway.

[Molson]

just a fun fact i guesse. any restuarant in canada in canada with a smoking section has to have seperate ventilator systems for the smoking and non-smoking sections with proper ventilation, my sisters friend owns a bubble tea place with a smoking section and she says they are inspected heavilly and regularly.

[tingjunkie]

Hell yeah! Thanks for that unintentional reminder! I'm going to get some bubble tea tomorrow. There is a nice place here in Portland, ME. Mmmmmmm taro-coconut milkshake.

[Molson]

hahahaha glad i could help

[Allia22]

Bubble tea?

[Sariél]

I have found that I am more likely to get a headache/migraine if I don't crack open a window just to get a little air flowing.

Gets a bit harder lately, Its already down to 37F here in So Cal, and its only 7:15PM !

[web250]

The most CO is released when you first light the coals anyway (with QL's at least), and I usually let them ignite out a window or near a fan.

[Scoop]

carbon monoxide?

LOL, maybe if you somehow have zinc oxide mix with the coal, then yes, you will get CO. but otherwise wtf are they smoking...

[Sonthert]

There was an interesting experiment I read about done in Great Britain where some guys, protesting the banning of smoking indoors, took a CO meter to cigarette smoke filled pubs in London (?) and the CO meter never moved off of atmospheric levels. So, I would say your friends should finish a college degree before offering medical or enviornmental chemistry opinions that aren't substantiated. There is approximately 100 times the level of psychotropic substances delivered by primary smoke rather than second hand smoke. If they ever test a person for pot use, a person that sits in the hot box, but doesn't smoke directly registers significantly lower than a positive threshold...ie they won't pop positive, so second smoke accumulated shouldn't produce anywhere near the levels of health issues that primary smoke does. IE if you didn't die smoking the hookah, the smoke lingering around won't kill you. Shouldn't anyways. No guarantees.

[amir22]

There was an interesting experiment I read about done in Great Britain where some guys, protesting the banning of smoking indoors, took a CO meter to cigarette smoke filled pubs in London (?) and the CO meter never moved off of atmospheric levels. So, I would say your friends should finish a college degree before offering medical or enviornmental chemistry opinions that aren't substantiated. There is approximately 100 times the level of psychotropic substances delivered by primary smoke rather than second hand smoke. If they ever test a person for pot use, a person that sits in the hot box, but doesn't smoke directly registers significantly lower than a positive threshold...ie they won't pop positive, so second smoke accumulated shouldn't produce anywhere near the levels of health issues that primary smoke does. IE if you didn't die smoking the hookah, the smoke lingering around won't kill you. Shouldn't anyways. No guarantees.

Excellent response, thank you.

Well, I smoked indoors last night and I'm still here! Thanks for the responses.

[ZAP]

I'm a regular hookah smoker and in my entire life I have probably smoke outdoors a maximum of like 3 times.

EVERY time I smoke it will be in a completely closed up room with very little ventilation at all yet I have successfully woken up every morning.

[ghostofdavid]

The hookah bar I attend (less so now since the smoking ban.. ) has at least three industrial sized filteration systems running. Two in the smoking section and one in the non-smoking section. I don't think they are for noxious gases, only the smell of smoke.

[[LB]]

No hookah bar I have been to has any special industrial ventilators. Not saying they don't exist, but I haven't seen them.

I saw a Darwin Award once where some dude kiled himself with his own farts. Apparently he slept in a tiny room with no ventilation, and...

I'm not sure I believe it, but it makes me giggle anyway.

yea i heard about that one its really funny. He lived in a tiny apartment with one window that he never opened (maybe he like his own farts?) and had a steady diet of like beans and liver

[kitefanatic]

I'm a regular hookah smoker and in my entire life I have probably smoke outdoors a maximum of like 3 times.

EVERY time I smoke it will be in a completely closed up room with very little ventilation at all yet I have successfully woken up every morning.

Yeah. I smoke indoors every night, but unfortunately it killed me a long time ago. However, death hasn't stopped me from continuing to smoke hookah on a nightly basis. So don't sweat it too much.