| Some professors believe that smoking shisha, the | | | | that there is more tar in hookah smoke. Unlike |
| tobacco used in hookahs, is much worse than | | | | cigarettes or cigars, shisha is a wet tobacco. It is |
| cigarettes. They say that because there is more | | | | covered in a molasses or glycerine and flavoring. |
| cubic volume of smoke inhaled in a tobacco, that | | | | Cigarettes are dry, and they BURN. Shisha is |
| smoking hookah is worse. Also, they mention that | | | | baked at around 300 degrees from the coals. |
| there is considerably more tar than cigarettes. I | | | | There are more carcinogens in cigarettes because |
| am not saying that smoking a hookah healthy or | | | | of this drastic difference in temperature. |
| good for you, because it isn't. I am here to make | | | | I am not advocating that smoking hookah is |
| a point that it is better off to smoke a hookah | | | | healthy. Like many things in life, if you take in |
| than a cigarette. | | | | moderation it will not affect or harm you. Alcohol |
| Let me first make a note that shisha is the | | | | for example can ruin lives. Over consumption can |
| tobacco that you smoke, and a hookah is what | | | | cause ill effects, and even death. There are a lot |
| you smoke the shisha with. Shisha is a tobacco | | | | of people who drive under the influence every |
| leaf with either glycerine or honey added, along | | | | day. Yet, it is said that having a glass of wine a |
| with the flavoring (i.e. apple, kiwi, or orange). | | | | night is healthy. Over consumption of fast food |
| Shisha has no additives like cigarettes do. Some | | | | can lead to clogged arteries and obesity. |
| brands of shisha actually wash the tobacco, so | | | | Cigarettes have additives in them, and cases of |
| there is a reduced amount of nicotine! Cigarette | | | | people not being able to successfully quit are a |
| companies are the ones who ADD nicotine into | | | | reality. |
| their cigarettes to make them as addictive as | | | | Over consumption of smoking Shisha in a Hookah |
| possible. | | | | is not healthy, but in moderation will not harm you. |
| For the topic of Tar in shisha, there is no Tar. | | | | Have you ever heard of a person who smoked |
| Zero. I am unaware how the people researching | | | | hookah say that he tried quitting, but he could not |
| the affects of smoking shisha in a hookah, but | | | | because he is addicted to it? |
| they must be doing something wrong to conclude | | | | |