I have just started to smoke hookah and I was wondering how harmful it is?

Question

I do not smoke cigerettes, maybe weed once or twice a year but I do the hookah pretty frequently now, I was wondering how bad it is for you, my one friend told be that it eats your insides is this true please help...
JJ

Answer 1

Your lungs just are not made for inhaling anything other than clean air.
Good luck.

Answer 2

I disagree with all of the above. Hookah, the way it's designed is much safer and healthier on your system. The heated coals heat up a mixture of fruit and tobacco (smoke and steam combination) and your inhaling pulls it down thru the tube, thru the water which cleans and cools it, then you draw this cooled cleaned steam/smoke into your lungs. It's very pleasant and relaxing. If you don't believe me, get a cigarette filter and pull your shisha smoke thru it. CLEAN. Smell the water in the bottom of the jar. You can smell the fruit and tobacco. ALso, right on the jar of shisha tobacco it says .05 % nicotine. 5/100th of a percent. What are cigarettes? I found a research article that rates each cigarette at .7 or higher per. SO, it's hard to rate shisha because only the top gets burnt, there is a lot of unused fruit pulp at the bottom of the bowl and the tobacco in shisha is cooked, in a cigarette, it's burnt away. My bottom line is my own personal history. I just had a chest x ray because I was getting over pneumonia. My doctor said I have the lungs of a healthy non-smoker yet I smoke almost every night. Cigarettes smoke sends me to the hospital. AND I was traveling for almost four months, NEVER smoked, didn't miss it at all (besides the pleasant social stuff that comes with smoking shisha.)

Answer 3

There honestly isnt a difference between smoking a cigarette or smoking hookah. You're still getting the nicotine, tar, and carbon monoxide you would get from smoking a cigarette and will still put you at risk of lung cancer.

Answer 4

Yes he's partially right, it doesn't nessecary eat your insides but you can get sick from it. Do not do that stuff on a regular basis.