I know Somia was joking and everything, but for those of you curious about support for the claims made above, you can check these links out:
# Even after it has passed through water, the smoke produced by a hookah contains high levels of toxic compounds, including carbon monoxide, heavy metals, and cancer-causing chemicals.
# While many hookah smokers may consider this practice less harmful than smoking cigarettes, water pipe smoking delivers the addictive drug nicotine and is at least as toxic as cigarette smoke.
# A typical 1-hour-long hookah smoking session involves inhaling 100?200 times the volume of smoke inhaled with a single cigarette.
# Irritation from exposure to tobacco juices increases the risk of developing oral cancers. The irritation by tobacco juice products among hookah smokers is likely greater than with pipe or cigar smoking because it is typically practiced more often and for longer periods of time with or without inhalation.
# The charcoal used to heat tobacco in the hookah increases the health risks by producing high levels of carbon monoxide, metals, and cancer-causing chemicals.
Source: http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/Factsheets/hookahs.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/11/health/11real.html (Bottom line of this article was "Hookah can be just as hazardous as cigarettes.")
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