Sunday, December 20, 2009

11:17 PM

for the benefit of mankind.(esp the stupid boy)

FACTS ABOUT SHEESHA


Waterpipe smokers are at risk of the same kind of diseases as are caused by
cigarette smoking, including cancer, heart disease, respiratory disease and
adverse effects during pregnancy.
• Using a waterpipe to smoke tobacco poses a serious potential health hazard to smokers and
others exposed to the smoke.
• Sheesha smoke contains high levels of chemicals and poisons, including carbon monoxide,
tar and heavy metals.
• Many of these chemicals are known to cause mouth and lung cancers, heart disease,
respiratory and other diseases.
• Even though it has passed through water, the levels of toxins in sheesha smoke can be as
high or higher than in cigarette smoke.
• Water-pipe smokers may absorb higher concentrations of these chemicals because of higher
concentrations in the smoke itself, or because they may smoke for several hours at a time
and may inhale moisturized, less irritating smoke more deeply.
• In a sheesha session lasting 60 minutes, a smoker can inhale as much smoke as a cigarette
smoker would inhale from 100 – 200 cigarettes.
• Second-hand smoke from sheesha is an extremely harmful mixture of tobacco smoke and
smoke from the fuel (charcoal).
• Non smokers, particularly pregnant women, babies, children and the elderly are at risk from
breathing in sheesha smoke.
Using a waterpipe to smoke tobacco is NOT a safe alternative to cigarette
smoking.




Sources:
World Health Organisation, TobReg, “Waterpipe Tobacco Smoking: Heath Effects, Research Needs and Recommended Actions by
Regulators”. 2005
Kamal Chaouachi, A critique of the WHO TobReg’s “Advisory Note” report entitled: “Waterpipe Tobacco Smoking: Heath Effects,
Research Needs and Recommended Actions by Regulators”. Journal of Negative Results in BioMedicine 2006, 5:17
Pam Rees, Directorate of Public Health, 2007



Here's a little more from wikipedia:

red for keywords.
purple for my own words.

A common belief (stop believing things like an idiot) among users is that the smoke is significantly less dangerous than that from cigarettes.[21] The water moisture induced by the hookah makes the smoke less irritating and may give a false sense of security (like running away from reality) and reduce concerns about true health effects.[22] Doctors at institutions including the Mayo Clinic have stated that use of hookah can be as detrimental to a person's health as smoking cigarettes,[23][24] and a study by the World Health Organization also confirmed these findings.[25]
Each hookah session typically lasts more than 40 minutes, and consists of 50 to 200 inhalations that each range from 0.15 to 0.50 liters of smoke (statistics statistics).[26][27]

Reports by the World Health Organization and the American Cancer Society have shown that, in a one-hour hookah session, users consume about 100 to 200 times (matches the statistic from the previous source!) the smoke and about 70 times the nicotine as they do in one cigarette.[28]
A study in the Journal of Periodontology found that water pipes smokers were five times more likely than non-smokers to show signs of gum disease. People who smoked water pipes had five times the risk of lung cancer as non-smokers.[29]
The water used to filter the chemicals does not work efficiently to remove all the harmful chemicals.[30]




So, DON'T DO IT.

I blog but you don't have to understand.