do any hooka smokers here know of any potentional dangers?
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Hello there,\n    I'm a hooka smoker myself, i'm 23 now and have been smoking it for 8 years. Here in Egypt they call it Sheesha.\n\nHere's a list of potential dangers that i know of:\n1- It has higher risks of lung, tongue and oral cancers due to lack of proper filtering.\n2- The sweetning agents in the tobacco mix turn into carcenogenic compounds on combustion.\n3- It has significantly high risks of tuberculosis especially when shared with more than one person.\n\nSo, i think it's about time we both quit dont you? :)\nend of line..
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A LONG TRAIL OF EVIDENCE LINKS CIGARETTE SMOKING TO LUNG CANCER\n\nAs someone who’s life has been touched by the tragic effects of cigarette smoking, I was saddened last week when the Supreme Court barred the FDA from regulating cigarettes. About 48 million adult Americans smoked cigarettes last year, according to the CDC. That’s one in four people, a fact that astonishes and alarms me. Why? Because this year an estimated 180,000 people will be diagnosed with lung cancer in the United States, and 90% of them will die within three years -- and 96% of these cancer victims are cigarette smokers.\n\n\nIs there a cause-and-effect connection between smoking cigarettes and lung cancer? Two years ago, I wrote my first columns for the Post Dispatch, explaining the scientific evidence that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer, and that cigarette smoking is addictive. If these two points are indeed true, then cigarettes , so much a part of American life, are in fact an addictive deadly drug! In the hope of encouraging readers to urge congress to act, I am reprinting these columns. In today’s column we will follow the trail of evidence that proves clearly that smoking causes cancer. In next week’s column I will examine the evidence that smoking tobacco is addictive.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPOINTING THE FINGER AT CIGARETTES\n\n\nThe long trail of evidence linking cigarettes to lung cancer has its beginnings right here in St. Louis, at Washington University’s School of Medicine. In 1948 a young first-year medical student, Ernst Wynder, witnessed an autopsy of a man who had died of lung cancer, and noted the lungs were blackened. Curious, he looked into the background of the patient. There was no obvious exposure to air pollution, but the man’s wife revealed he had smoked two packs of cigarettes a day for thirty years! Like a dog with a juicy bone, Wynder had found a puzzle that would occupy him much of his professional life, and despite much controversy, he never let go of it.\n\n\nOver the next two years, Wynder doggedly reviewed records to see if there were other cases linking cigarettes and lung cancer. He found that many lung cancer patients were smokers. Interviewing lung cancer patients and "control" patients with other cancers, far more cancer occurred among the smokers. Early in 1950 he published his results in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Comparing 649 lung cancer patients with 600 controls, he found lung cancer an incredible 40 times higher among smokers, with the risk of cancer increasing with the number of cigarettes smoked.\n\n\nLater that year, Richard Doll, a well known British scientist, reported an even more convincing finding linking smoking to lung cancer. Over a period of years, Doll had interviewed quite a large number of physicians, inquiring of each about their smoking habits -- then waited to see which ones developed lung cancer. Overwhelmingly, they were the smokers. Because it was not "after the fact", Doll’s test of the smoking causes cancer hypothesis was particularly rigorous and powerful. From that day forward, the scientific case linking smoking to lung cancer has been clear-cut.
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Yes, but people tend not to inhale cigar smoke as deeply as cigarette smoke so it is minimally less of a problem.  You still run the risk of cancer.  And they make your breath and clothes smell awful.  Big turn-off.
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depends on how long you smoked but probably never doesnt mean you shouldnt. dont make things worse; a million other side effects besides your lung damage will be avoided.
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BIG HEALTH THREAT. smoking catnip WILL colapse your lungs not could will happend to a kid i went to high school with
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If you don't like it, don't smoke it.\nIf you don't like someone else smoking it, then try learning about it.\nIt's not very harmful - the biggest danger by far is from the police state!
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Second hand smoke is a known carcinogen.  It is also known to have other effects (increased risk of asthama, reduced immune system, etc.).  And it stinks.\n\nThat said, it is not a higher risk than smoking.  Still, I would try and find a way to deal with it.
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Any kind of smoke is bad for you. If you smoke once in ahwile its not that bad. If you smoke as much as my roomate does then you may get cancer or have trouble breathing.
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of course it is.it causes lung cancer,heart disease,bronchitis,emphysema.trust me cos it's all in my bio. book. smoking contains tar,nicotine & carbon monoxide which contribute to all of these diseases at some point.cheers!
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Carefully check out your local laws; check your health department to see if they have any advice. Where I live, in the U.S. in a rather conservative state, you can 1) file a lawsuit against the building since they are providing you heat or a/c contaminated by a carcinogenic substance; 2) sue your neighbors for creating a nuisance. Where I live yes, you are free to smoke yourself to death, but you have to contain your cigarette smoke to your unit or outside. \n\nPeople here are also signing petitions to prohibit smoking at all in their apartment buildings/condos. A fascist approach, yes, but they apparently feel it necessary to keep people's carcinogens outside of their own living spaces.
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I suggest going to a hookah bar and smoke the non-hazardous one. I went to a Mediterranean restaurant where they had hookahs and they had fruit flavors like apple. That was a good experience.
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Yes, it would definitely cause some damage to your lungs (not really sure how serious) and it can also stunt your growth. You also need to consider what if you become addicted and end up smoking more than a pack a week and for longer than a year.
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There's no doubt that smoking is not good for you but....\nI would be more concerned about the air you breathe daily!\nI would be more concerned about what we eat!laboratory experiments show that pigs can indeed be infected by Mad Cow brains--and hundreds of thousands of downer pigs, too sick or crippled by injury to even walk, arrive at U.S. slaughterhouses every year.This article also includes info on other meat sources as well! A good read and "food" for thought No pun intended!\nDid you know that the average person takes over 20,000 breaths a day.We spend our entire day breathing in and out and yet, most of the time, we don’t even think about it.  We’re not aware of a function which is vital for sustaining life.  \nOf the air cancer risk calculated by EDF for the U.S. as a whole, 60 percent is from mobile sources and 26 percent from small business 'area; sources, with the remaining 14 percent from industrial 'point' sources.Wouldn't cigarettes be considered an air cancer risk since we breathe in the smoke?\nMore people die each year in the United States from medical errors than from highway accidents, breast cancer or AIDS, \n\nSo you see it doesn't really matter where you live,how much money you have,or what you do to earn a living,we all breathe the same air and buy our food from the same food chain,From the minute you are born,you begin to die,so don't take life too seriously,you're not going to come out of it alive,and a hundred years from now,nobody's going to give a rats behind about you any ways!so chill,don't worry be happy! and smile!
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There are numerous effects. \nFirst of all, the tar in the cigarettes sets in lungs and cannot be easily thrown out (smoker's cough). \nMineral particles in the smoke stick into the lung tissue and cause miniature ruptures of the alveoals. In time, alveolas go dead, and there is no replacement for them.\nParticles, that are not stuck in the tissue, get wrapped by "slime", which is hard to cough out. It remains in the lungs, and may cause pneumonia. The slime is also very good environment for bacteria to grow.\nIf many ruptures are concentrated in one place, the damage can cause enormous growth of the tissue, but with cell metabolism changed, and lung cancer begins to spread.\nShortage of oxygen cause lungs to work harder, to provide enough oxygen to the body. Damaged tissue contains blood cloggs that may be moved by intensive lung movement, start flowing through the blood vessels and obstruct the flow through tiny blood branches, which leads to the lung infarct.\n\nIs this enough, or You want to be frightened for some more?
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Hookah (narghile) smoking, which started in the Middle East, involves burning tobacco (called shisha and often mixed with flavors such as molasses or dried fruit) in a water pipe and inhaling the flavored smoke through a long hose. It has become popular in Western countries among younger people in recent years. Hookahs are marketed as being a safe alternative to cigarettes. This claim is false. The water does not filter out many of the toxins, and hookah smoke contains varying amounts of nicotine, carbon monoxide, and other hazardous substances. Several types of cancer, as well as other negative health effects, have been linked to hookah smoking.
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No but any smoking is just stupid.\nOn the up side you will have minty fresh breath
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I would rather have my mate fart in front of me then smoke a cigarette.  LOL  Second hand smoke can kill you in the long term, a fart is harmless unless it comes from my butt.  The government rents my ass out for counter terrorism measures.  LMAO