10 Things You Should Know About Shisha / Hookah

[smokefreevegas]

Here is a new study comparing hookah to cigarette smoking. This study was done just a couple years ago with modern hookah products and known brands. It shows, again, that a hookah session (with actual hookah smokers) produces more smoke, carbon monoxide and nicotine than smoking cigarettes:

GOOGLE: Waterpipe Tobacco and Cigarette Smoking: Direct Comparison of Toxicant Exposure

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[Ichliebegermany]

these scare tactics are mostly false. i smoked hookah today and hardly had any smoke come out it all depends on the hookah. hookah isnt that bad i even joggin afterwards about 2.5 miles and was fine

[acidkuba1]

Man you really should get some cold sore medicine for those lips. You can't just let that go. Your lips are not pourous and need cream of some sort before it heals. Good luck with that. And on that note back to the hookah!!!!!!!!!:)

[aopenman123]

This video's music is relaxing to smoke hookah with.

[DeWiz001]

#1 yes so can a spoon but if you clean and sanitize the spoon it will be fine. No tar. Additives are same as in your food and its the fruit thats smells. No ammonia. Not smoke its vapor caused by heat,honey glycerin (like glycerin used in fog machines) and water. Doesnt set of a fire alarm becuase their is no CM (not being burnt but baked) and no chemicals. hookah coals heat 350-450F nicotine boiling point appx. 477F. #9I guess you cant have fruit at all then.

[QUITBecause]

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[QUITBecause]

Quote from Paul Hooper, tobacco policy manager, at Warwickshire Primary Care Trust (PCT) "carbon monoxide levels in Shisha pipes were so high, it was the same as smoking up to 100 cigarettes in just one sitting. He added there was a further risk of users contracting tuberculosis, or herpes from a contaminated pipe."

[PopCornCeiling0000]

This video is soooo stupid hahah

[samreardenski]

over 2/3 americans have oral herpes. so i mean getting oral herpes isnt that big of a deal...

[Tht1guy63]

i smoke aure its not healthy for u but what in todays world is

[PokemonGlitches123]

biased

[Emilio0587]

Some of the information on this video was false

[Albaniandude69]

8^Q <--- me with hookah hose in mouth ;)

[o2deprivation]

The WHO tests were run on a different type of hookah which uses a different type of tobacco. The hookahs commonly smoked in most lounges across the United States use a honey or molasses and vegetable glycerin based substance that contains almost no other ingredients. The hookahs used in the WHO tests use regular pipe tobacco, usually without a screen between the tobacco and coals. These pipes smell bad and put many carcinogens into your body, the same as cigarettes. It is a null test.

[GottesZornUndSo]

ten: sure, becoz hookah, if u got correct coal and tabacco, holds up to about 2 hours... never saw someone smoking on 1 cigarette for 2 hours, atleast only about 3 min per cigarette so up to 120mins these are 40 cigaretts. ok not 200 times more smoke, but, do u smoke ur cigarette filterd with water? dont think so... and to avoid virus, u can change water, CLEAN UR HOOKAH! and maby smoke allone or use 1-use-mouth sticks...

[MATTx602]

....9) Herbal shisha has ZERO Tar. 10) Though there is more physical smoke, there is not nearly as many chemicals as cigarettes. 1 bowl is equivalent to 1.5 cigarettes. The difference is it takes about 2 minutes to smoke a cig, and 45 to smoke a bowl. You do the math. I'm not sure where you are getting this information, but maybe we should stick to ACTUAL facts rather than blabbering out nonsense you picked up from the internet. Smoking is unhealthy, but hookah is definately the least harmful

[MATTx602]

1) That is assuming your friends have herpes. 2) Cleaning is mandatory. 3) Again, cleaning. 4) Most brands of shisha sold in the US use organic flavors and extracts from real fruit, no chemicals. 5) FALSE. Cigarettes go just as deep into the lungs as shisha smoke. 6) Again, that is false. The only toxic chemicals you are expose to are from cheap coal, which the water does filter out. 7) 1 cigarette contains about 50x as much tar as 25 grams(about 1 bowl) of shisha. 8) Back to 4, ORGANIC FRUIT...

[QUITBecause]

apologies - link won't post. See 'NHS livewell, south Asian health, smoking and paan'

[QUITBecause]

Thank you for your posts. At QB, we only use information gained from credible and regulated sources, e.g, the NHS, WHO etc. Please see this link for more information on shisha/hookah:

[djdude420]

I could put a refute to every single reason up there they said why to NOT smoke hookah. This video is really annoying to watch and a big piece of either misinformed or propaganda bull. I would like to swear, but as my comment will not be posted, and I will be viewed as unintelligent for doing so, i will refrain.

[QUITBecause]

As Quit Because are a youth organisation we are unable to approve and publish comments that contain swearing or imply swearing by using symbols in the place of letters.

Quit Because only gather information from studies and research produced by reputable, regulated health and medical organisations and aim to provide people with correct information to allow them to make informed choices.

[NickSlaughter669]

I am not going to begin to explain at how many levels you are wrong. I don't have enough time to point out everything you falsely state in this video.

[droig]

Just wanted to say thanks. I never really enjoyed smoking out of a hookah but was thinking about doing it more now that I have quite smoking and this has convinced me not to bother.

[MATTx602]

@droig Quitting altogether would be best, But don't listen to the person who made this video. Hookah is definately the least harmful of ALL means of smoking tobacco. Trust me, they have not a clue what they are talking about

[juanrocks2001]

Cigarrettes have .5% nicotine in them, Shisha tabacco does indeed have nicotine but its only .05%, way less than cigarrettes, perfect for those people who want to quit smoking gradually, and its fun to do with friends.

[MATTx602]

@juanrocks2001 You forgot to add that the water filters out about 97% of all chemicals which would make it almost 0.

[MrJavier0103]

deadly, alot of food comes from alot of places we run the same risk by eating anything imported these videos are the type of videos that made marijuana seem soo bad when its not badd whatsoever

[MrJavier0103]

shisha dos not have tar in it thats why you it dosent stick on clothes and also hookah dosent even really burn the shisha its burning the juice so really its more vapor than anything thats why if you try to hot box a room you cant it evaporates this video is really just one of does video to make something seem completly

[alfarion1]

tar is only produced when tobacco is burned to 800 degrees F, hookah only gets upto 250-350, and the tobacco isnt burnt its vaporized.

[eastyg]

It doesnt have tar, all youre doing is roasting it, youre not burning it like you do with a cigarrette!

[claxtonit]

I really enjoy number 3..it suggests that TB in the middle east would not be a huge problem if people did not smoke hookah. Maybe if mesquitos disappeared, the water was clean, and people stopped having sex too, Tuberculosis would not even be an issue.

[shingolimited]

I would question the reason that refers to higher CO delivery because I have conducted experiments myself and found that Shisha smokers have 75% less CO levels in terms of ppm (part per million) compared to cigarette smokers. My proof would be to use a smokelyzer (device to measure CO levels in your body)

[shingolimited]

Add to the 10 reasons:

11- Pulmonary aspergillosis = Scary fungal infection

[psychokillax]

wow is this a joke or a brainwashed person who believes anyone that says anything , where are you getting these facts?

[needleshurt]

i find it funny how they compare one 2 hour long hookah session to a single cigarette. of course theres gonna be more smoke inhaled from hookah.

also, about the tar in the tobacco, im holding one of my favorite flavors and it states 0% tar and .05% nicotene, and i have yet to see a brand advertise over .5 percent nicotene

[iTzxEvil]

people like you, probably haven't graduated high school, please do everyone a favor and just stop breathing thank you

[yotube123454321]

Rebuttal: 1. Don't smoke with people who have herpes 2. Wash vase and stem 3. Don't smoke with people who have tuberculosis 4. Shisha has three ingredients. (Tobacco, molasses/sugar, flavor) 5. Shisha doesn't contain tar. 6. See number 4 7. Don't drink hookah water when finished smoking 8. I guess we're also fucked if we eat fruit then. 9. Which is minimal. 10. Lets see how that study was done, and cigarette smoke is worse for you anyways.

[bloodraven2471]

HOOKAH IS SAFE

[spacejammer1991]

lol the trading of germs and things is tru but thats why ur smart and use a hose tip when around people u dont know but every other part about that was false because first off tar is only produced when u burn tobacco at 800 degrees u never will get shisha that hot using it correctly an average bowl will "bake" at 250-350 degrees and as rintintin1000 said its mostly not smoke at all but vapor from the honey and glycerin

[Willforbes296532]

OH MY GOD NO! HERPES!!! IM BURNING MY HOOKAH AND SEND ITS HERP-RIDDEN MOUTHPIECE STRAIGHT TO HELL!!! EVIL!!!

[DomeSLit]

Oh thanks man im going to stop smoking hookah because of this video...NOT!

[chrisgonzo9]

I don't know where you got your information and statistics but a lot of the things you stated were wrong. It's true infectious diseases can pass from hookah but isn't that true with straws, glasses, kissing, etc. There can be stomach viruses in the pipe system but most hookah smokers clean out their system regularly using an alcohol/salt/water solution and experts recommend this. You don't say how TB is linked to the shisha and the hookahs, it could have been from something else in the lounge.

[bassman12993]

9.Herbal hookah doesn't produce tar!! And they do not add tar

10.And the king of comments made against hookah. It is true that you inhale 200x the amount of smoke...but that's only the VOLUME of the smoke. As far as it being equal to smoking 200 cigarette...not even close. With the cigarette you do get tar, carbon monoxide, ammonia, cyanide, hydrogen cyanide, sulfuric acid, and many other chemicals

I mean this in a respectful manner...your video is flawed

use the same facts and do one on cigs

[bassman12993]

6. Anything polluting the water will be dumped

7.Again there is no tar in shisha. Hookah is not burnt directly with fire, so the overall temperature is below 350 degrees. All tobacco naturally produces tar (without it being added) but it starts producing it at 800 degrees. Its similar with carbon monoxide, It's produced at higher temperatures than the hookah is capable of getting

8.most pesticides and chemicals can be avoided if you buy non-American tobacco. As a country ours is full of chems

[bassman12993]

1.use mouth tips to avoid herpes

2.clean the pipes...duh

3.I don't know much about TB or its link to hookah, but I'm sure the reason can be easily avoided in a clean health environment

4.yes they add scent and flavor.....ammonia....haven't heard of it being in hookah. I'm not doubting it, but you also said theres tar in shisha

5.valid point that's also one of the reasons I like hookah

6.I know you can't filter out everything, and If by chemicals you mean the nicotine and flavor...I want them!

[GuitarMan229]

For starters, this video is over conscious of health. Herpes and/or other diseases can be spread on through any horizontal transmission such as sharing drinks etc, etc. Also, most of the reasons you give for shisha being 'disease ridden' are similar to just generally sharing things with other people. Furthermore, most shisha/hookah users use molasses with NO tobacco, NO tar, NO nicotine and barely any carcinogens. I'm not saying it's healthy, but if done correctly it is much 'healthier'.

[ReverendRatspeed]

I'm sorry, but this video reeks of propaganda. It's almost as bad as the campaign to ban dihydro-monoxide. Seriously. "Pollutes the water?" Yes, and guess where the water goes after I'm done smoking? Down the drain. Pissing in a toilet pollutes the water. You don't see me drinking that. It goes down the drain.

[SuperCamaraman]

WHO EVER MADE THIS VID MUST NOT KNOW ABOUT SHESHA ON THE LABLE CLEARLY IT SAYS 0% TAR AND 0.05% NICOTINE. I HAD MY HOOKAH FOR TWO AND A HALF YEARS AND TRIED ALL KINDS OF FLAVORS AND NEVER GOT SICK.

[nofreedom1]

1. dont share your hose with people who have mouth herpes 2. clean your hookah 3. live in america 4.shisha tastes and smells good 5. hookahs smoke smooth probably the water that acts as a filter. 6. unless you wear a gas mask all day youre breathing in many chemicals anyways 7. no controlled levels. but the most ive seen is .6% nicotine and .5% 8. they were found...so the past doesnt matter here 9. herbal sucks 10. smoke with friends

[SuperWii64]

the thing about the tar is false because, tar's vaporization temperature is 600F while the coal only gets up to 350F

[cmonutube]

this video is WACK... just use common sense and smoke on occasion... obviously if one smokes shisha once in a while it's perfectly fine. If one smokes every day thats a different story altogether. concentrate on real issues like getting cigarettes banned, getting marijuana legalized, or advocating stem cell research instead of wasting your time making videos about how SHISHA is "bad"...

[jjaammoo9]

dont smoke hookah with people with herpes easy

[VRTO92]

I can get herpes? omg .. I'm gonna quit right now! NOT! other things are just stupid or fake..

[DonLollio]

@StrRecord how in the world can you get ADDICTED to hookah? theres allmost no nicotine in shisha....and theres no tar..... 

[XzAnToZ]

You dont get addicted to hookah ;)

I have a Hookah and i only use it at partys and with friends :)



[qureysh99]

smoking hookah or shisha ita harmful to your health by any way so must quite as soon as possible and I'll tell all my friend to drop it, so you all same thing too!!!!

[qureysh99]

hookah or shisha its harmful to your health and u will get lung desease/cancer so watch out and dont put your life danger other wise you will regret later!

some of you says there is no nicotine but smoke is more dangerous than nicotine cuz it creates a lot of deseases in your chest or stomach????

[qureysh99]

hookah or shisha its harmful to your health and u will get lung desease/cancer so watch out and  dont put your life danger other wise you will regret later!

[xMidgetManSamx]

iv researched this , theres no conclusive tests comfirming any of this

[slowgreencivic]

Shisha has no Tar, It's a blend of tobacco (.05% nicotine) Molasses, Glycerin (for wetness, it evaporates when the coals heat the shisha) and small pieces or extract from fruit for flavor. Cigarettes, however, have more than 400 chemicals, hot smoke (very harsh and unpleasant), Tar (Again, Shisha lacks tar), and .5% nicotine. Shisha isn't healthy, but when compared to cigarettes it is; so if you want people to "quit because," focus more on the harmful effects of cigarettes.

Shisha = clean smoke

[DecKrash]

Rebuttals (part 1):

#1: This is why you get a hookah with more than one hose... and BE CAREFUL WHO YOU SHARE IT WITH!

#2: This is why you CLEAN YOUR HOOKAH AFTER USING IT!

#3: See #2!

#4 TOTALLY FALSE! No additives like that exist in shisha. Only honey, flavoring, and vegetable glycerin.

#5: Cigarette smoke contains no tar. Tar is produced when tobacco is burned at over 800 degrees. Hookah smoke doesn't come from tobacco burning; it comes from it baking... at 350 degrees!

[writefromwithin]

herbal is so nasty and cigs are nasty to begin with.

[ChristacularIsDead]

The most stupid video on youtube lol! None of that makes sense.

[Thegrandsultan]

People say weed is bad. No one told you that the active ingredients THC cures cancer! Look it up! 3 rats had cancerous tumors. 2 had thc injected in the tumors and the other one did not. The two tumors shrunk and the 3rd one didnt and died. They dont tell you this so they can rack up money from chemo and medical bills. Thats our government for you!

[TheSaintPendulous]

Ok Folks, Clean your Hookah Regularly, dont share it with people who are sick.....pretty easy right??

DO your own research, dont let this anti Hookah Propoganda scare u away, theres a guy on here whos name is Shisha 96 nd he seems to know what hes talkin about

[trZack]

I have two things to talk about

Number five: Tobacco needs to be heated to around 750+ F to burn and release tar, anything under it, (the temperature of hookah heated tobacco is around 300) will not create tar :)

Number eight: "...pesticides and other chemicals used in farming were found..." - so this means that the food itself is unsafe to eat and we shouldn't even eat it either.

[quixote6942]

MOST of what you're Saying is Wrong, or blown out of porportion! In Hookah bars, the Hookahs are cleaned BETTER than ANY utensil found in ANY restaurant! Think about that (and Catching HERPES) when you're eating out! The "facts" that you present AREN'T proven, and are nothing more than scare tactics. the water may NOT filter out everything (or there would be no TASTE or SMOKE) but it DOES make for a better smoke! If you don't want to smoke Hookah, fine... but LEAVE US ALONE!

[hville420]

If I could quote the late great bill hicks, "I'll smoke, I'll get the tumors, and I'll die, sound good? Now don't mind if I just enjoy myself"

[imlatinoguy]

UMMM. What is the purpose of this video? First of all HOOKAH IS NON ADDICTIVE 1. You can use smoke pics to avoid that mouth dangers. I dont live in Syria. Plus Shisha cafes use smoke pics to keep things regulated. 2. Hookah has no tar. 3. Polluting the water? Im not gonna drink the water, I am going to inhale water vapor. In a single Hookah sessions you smoke 200 times more smoke. But people who smoke cigarettes smoke 500 times more than Hookah people because they do it every day.

[Adonaitruth]

10. Inhaling 200 times more smoke is meaningless, logically think about it. Could you even stand after inhaling 200 cigarettes ? I think you would be sick, or dead.

[Adonaitruth]

8. Thats just how it goes, you will find fruit and vegetables in your grocery store have the same,90 % of grapes are rolled in sulphur dioxide and are genetically modified-do you not eat these on this basis?

9. Herbal shisha, depending on what type are made up of perhaps sugar cane, there is no tar. Also there is no tar in shisha tobacco.

[Adonaitruth]

5. Cigarettes are ment to be inhaled into lungs, how deep is not the issue. Shisha has no tar - by the way.

6. Water does not dissolve all of the chemicals in tobacco, true. But again you are getting confused with cigaret tobacco, they are completely different.

7. There is 0.5 % nicotine in shisha tobacco, and again this is not addictive, you need to research the difference between natural tobacco nicotine and free radical nicotine (found in cigarettes).

[Adonaitruth]

1. Mouth pieces don't pass on bacteria/viruses - 99% of hooka bars supply disposable plastic mouth pieces (even comes with shish).

2. Bugs living in the bowl etc, hookah should be emptied regularly, no problem here.

3. Middle east are not aware of health as the west, hence they do not clean/use mouth pieces.

4.Shisha tobacco only has a couple of ingredients, tobacco, natural flavour, honey and natural flavour -thats it. Your getting confused with cigarettes, regarding ammonia.

[HermitPenguin]

Smoking hookah has been done for thousands of years, sir. Apparently the health effects were not overwhelming enough to discontinue use of hookah. As for the ammonia: its about as dangerous as changing a cat litter box... not too dangerous, ay? You must also look at the social aspect of it; people who converse with each other lead a healthier life and actually live longer. To everyone: Have an open mind and think for yourself. We aren't Neanderthals for a reason...

[usmarine1995]

you can say to every single thing you said that its not realy right cuz it depends on the hookah owner if its clean or how many times he inhales it.

[mmaarrkkooSRB]

shisha doestn bring tar into your lungs... tar can only be produced if its being burned by 800 deegres... the charcoal on the shisha is only about 200 - 250 deegres... sry for bad english

[Kahlo69]

well this video just made me cancel my hookah order..... NOT!!!!!

btw THERE IS NO NICOTINE IN HOOKAH TOBACCO!!!!!

[QUITBecause]

@Kahlo69 There are tiny traces of nicotine in hookah; not enough to get you addicted but nicotine isn't the big issue with hookah...

[Kesam100]

@QUITBecause but, if there is no nicotine, that would make you less likely to get addicted wich would result in not having to smoke hookah/shisha everyday like most cigarette smokers do no? ( sorry, only tiny traces of nicotine)

[TheSaintPendulous]

@Kahlo69 Nicotine is a Byproduct OF tobacco...it just comes with it, the levels differ on who u get it from.....but im glad it didnt scare you away!!

[Spartan54232]

@Kahlo69 yeah there is .05% washed and 5% unwashed

[jerkshite13]

@Kahlo69 EXACTLY or tar (well at least the brand i buy)

[fbebeats]

@Kahlo69 Actually, hookah tobacco contains nicotine. It's TAR that it doesn't have. An even so, it's a way smaller amount than a pack of cigarettes. If you're gonna help us defend the hookah culture, at least do your research. Thanx!

[fbebeats]

1.) If you use alcohol or vinegar to clean your hose tips, then no germs to worry about. 2.) What makes hookah tobacco non-addictive is the fact that it's WASHED tobacco and no more additives than glycerin or flavoring. 3.) QUITbecause's info. comes from CIGARETTE smoking, which is far different from hookah smoking b/c the volume of smoke (from hookah) is WATER VAPOR, not smoke. 4.) Doing hookah for 10 years+, not one headache; no shortness of breath. 5.) Find me 1 hookah-related cancer patient!

[purplemutantas]

@Kahlo69 Yes there is nicotine in shisha. Look at the side of the box, it lists the percentage. I have gotten nicotine buzzes from smoking hookah. I also smoke cigarettes, so I am familiar with the effects of nicotine. There may not be as much nicotine in shisha as cigarettes, but it DOES have nicotine in it.

[SCprez]

@purplemutantas i agree but there is far less then cigs

[rippkurlzable]

You don't have to inhale it...a lot of people just taste it. sure the smoke isn't good for you, but getting too close to a fire roasting marshmallows isn't good for you either.

[WESTSIDEGENIUS]

OK jut answer me this question? Which is worse and more effective and can most likely kill you faster

Cigars

Cigarettes

Weed

Hookah?????

[extreme1is1me]

regardless if these facts are true who really cares??? we all have to die sometime dont we ? and as long as u clean your hookah and just live your life you shouldnt worry about the negatives in life hell whats out there now a days that dosent kill you?

so nice scare tactic

[chellywuzhere636]

correction: there is NO TOBACCO in herbal shisha because it is made from SUGAR CANE which means there is no nicotene in it. Also, herbal shisha may cause health risks, but only if you do it on the daily basis..in my opinion i think of herbal as alcohol..if its abused it can be insanely harmful, but if it responsibly used you probably wont have a problem

PS im basing this info off of what I have read about herbal, not MY personal knowledge

[scarface8999]

@StrRecord

i have been smoking hookah everyday for many years, recently though, I quit smoking. it has been 6 months. Were are my small strokes and my withdraws?

[jan3471]

i smoked hookah it was ma first tym i did with ma friends in da hookah bar so will it be harmfull 4 me??? plz tell me i am curiouse abt it n when i did it ma head started to pain i am not gonna doit agian tho butagain will it bharmfull 2 me?

[jan3471]

omg i am 14 n i smoked hookah so will it b harmfull 2 me? i did with ma friends in da hookah bar. n it was ma 1st tym will it b harmfull 2 me? i am ma curiouse abt it ,,,,,,

[ariberns]

hookah is statistically much safer than cigarettes, stop manipulating statistics

[MrForestGreen]

3) Ok people who smoked hookahs in the middle east have contracted TB from smoking at cafes; AGAIN! NOT SOMETHING THAT IS A RESULT SMOKING A HOOKAH. Yes it may have caused them to have a higher probability come in contact with TB but the infection was in the population! TB can just as easily be spread by standing next to someone on a bus who has an active infection and a cough. Also TB in the US, haha! in 2005 the CDC reported a bit under 15,000 active infections, that's 1in20,000 people

[MrForestGreen]

2) Again! this is not something that is associated with the Shisha, It is a result of poor hygiene on the part of the hookah owner. I clean my pipe after every smoke and sanitize (with bleach) it every 5 smokes or so. Its common sense! If a hookah looks like its been neglected and is crusted with dirt "hay that thing looks dirty maybe I shouldn't put my lips on it". I'm aware that looking clean does not always mean germ free, but for most people that why we have immune systems.

[MrForestGreen]

OK! Prepare to be broken down argument by argument!

1) Mouth pieces can be vectors of disease, true, but so can sharing a drink or slice of pizza with a friend. This danger is not a something inherent in the Shisha but is related to the people smoking, further there are individual plastic mouthpieces that are designed to curb spit swapping, but the bottom line is if some one is sick, don't let them smoke your hookah!

[Ringsmaster09]

this report is so misinformed. stuff like this anger me, it doesnt know what its talking about and its not smoke but vapor, please please please do some reasearch that doesnt include the WHO as they are most likely the most illinformed people out there. they say because hookah has 100 times the smoke it is 100 times as harmfull. people sometimes make this misconception. most need to join a hookah forum and really ask good questions and not listen to these misinformed videos

[jkvv2006]

Cigz have 4000+ chemicals vs Shisha's 4-5 ingredients

[jkvv2006]

Cigz have 4000+ chemicals vs Shisha's 4-5 ingredients / Cigz have .90% nicotine vs Shishas .05%(most) nicotine content /

[jkvv2006]

Cigz have 4000+ chemicals vs Shisha's 4-5 ingredients / Cigz have .90% nicotine vs Shishas .05%(most) nicotine content / simple test is the napkin test. > smoke a cig and exhale on a napkin > it will turn yellow/brown >Hookah smoke cant reproduce the same result > ALSO cigz turn your gum black and teeth yellow...hookah smokers dont have these same characteristics post smoke. Think about it. Volume of smoke vs Quality of smoke is like Wine cooler vs Moonshine

[VisionaryFilmsJB]

Sorry guys but this is ridiculously ignorant. Like rintintin said its mostly vapor there is also no tar because the shisha is baked not burned. Also about the whole bacteria thing you deserve to die if youre not smart enough to clean your hookah. Its natural selection guys. I could make numerous other points about all the fallacies that are in this video. But its really not worth my time.

[britjh22]

What a terrible piece of fear mongering. There have not been any useful studies that I have seen that replicate the actual conditions under which Shisha is used to compare it to cigarette smoking. The ammonia comment is ridiculous, as I don't know any brands that include such harsh chemicals. As far as the "deepness" of draw, I'd love to see where this comes from.  Any "pollution" to the water is not even worth mentioning, unless you drink your base water afterwards.

What absolute garbage

[theseidlehands05]

I would love to see legitimate sources behind most of these claims. A lot of them sound incredibly exaggerated, or just totally false.

[neptuneswarrior]

Kinda funny, everyone says there is tar in shisha smoke, but in all reality there is no tar produced. Tar is produced from an organic compound (in this case tobacco) burning in excess of 500 degrees F. In one CORRECTLY used session of hookah the tobacco will never reach 500 degrees. I am not saying that smoking hookah is healthy, but get your facts straight and site studies done with correct techniques.

[Hollistan]

Hookahs use charcoal as a way of producing the smoke in a hookah. The Shisha is not burnt directly so there is no ressin that can be inhaled, which makes it much less harmful

[lvenick09]

no more shisha for me. I have OCD and that bacteria/viruses or HERPES! being passed around ew. But when i do shisha we usually use that disposable nozzle thing does that not decrease the amount of bacteria being passed around?????

[suburbankilla]

oh look did i just post what cancer means... i think i did.

hormonal imbalaces can cause cancer, so can heredity, even pregnancy can cause cancer, anything that enters the body, or lives in the body can cause cancer. so when we focus on one thing that can cause cancer, it makes me think...

[suburbankilla]

Cancer (medical term: malignant neoplasm) is a class of diseases in which a group of cells display uncontrolled growth (division beyond the normal limits), invasion (intrusion on and destruction of adjacent tissues), and sometimes metastasis (spread to other locations in the body via lymph or blood). These three malignant properties of cancers differentiate them from benign tumors, which are self-limited, and do not invade or metastasize.

[suburbankilla]

please if you're going to make a slander video, show the myths with factual evidence, not this myths, or false claims, i want scientific backing here. not claims from crackpots who dont know the differance from a cigarette and shisha. two different forms of tabacco one of which is washed repeately to make it better then the other, which is chalk full of so many addictive and harmful chemicals, and for your consideration, like true hookah king said; EVERYTHING CAUSES CANCER!!! its mutated cells.

[spartan55874]

Watch TheTrueHookahKing's video about this one

[henrykazuo]

Few years ago, not much, but few years ago, ciggaretes were very popular among people and they didnt know its dangerous Today we all know all the dangers of smoking ciggarettes. 50 Years later, they'll know that hookah is not a safer alternative and they will know its dangerousr. No Smoke in your lunges is good. Your lunges were made to receive oxygen, not smoke from burnt stuff. I do smoke hookah, I know it can affect my health. Btw, this video doesnt match with the reality.

[Guitarandgoggles]

There is NO ammonia or tar in shisha.

Shisha is not harmful. You are making up a bunch of crap that you have no proof of or knowledge about,

and you should be ashamed..

A couple of scientific studies and tests were done on shisha, and it showed to only have one negative effect. This

was high carbon monoxide levels. However, there is not enough carbon monoxide in a session to harm you.

These coals are designed specifically to be safe for this sort of thing.

[xspawnnx]

just logically thinking, hookah cant be worse than cigarettes simply because the tobacco is baked instead of burned

[Shorty4life333]

ok this is stupid.

1. use a mouthtip, cant pass diseases

2. stomach bugs don't live in your hose and bowl

3. too bad that was in a different country and they werent using mouthtips

4. what additives are used when the contents of shisha tobacco or listed on the packaging? dumb ass

5. too bad the nicotine cant be released because its too hot hence evaporating the nicotine, and there is NO tar in hookah, its not burning its being baked, so no tar!

there is more to say but i ran out of letters.

[beardedboy303]

Ther is no tar in shisha! and it does not produce tar becuse it gets cooked not burned and whats the problem with it filtering the bad stuff threw the water? THATS WHAT IT'S SUPOSED TO DO! what, do you think people are going to drink the water?

[cthroughtheillusion]

really chocking facts here that many people are unaware of currently - its good that someone is making people aware of the dangers.

[DumbassPen]

I want to make my friends quit, and I want this song.

[rintintin1000]

I suppose you do realise that the bulk of the "smoke" that comes from Shisha isn't smoke at all, but vapour. Indeed, the bulk of the tobacco does not combust but undergoes a change of state by becoming vapour and is hence a very different substance from tobacco smoke.

[QUITBecause]

Our conclusions were based on two WHO reports (the links to which I've messaged you). We'd welcome the link to the trial that you're quoting as it sounds like a great one to evaluate since it's measured the constituent parts of the shisha smoke to conclude that it's mostly vapour. We're always looking for additional research and papers in this area and if you come across such findings please send us the links as your paper doesnt seem to be on Cochrane or pubmed (leaders in healthcare info).

[mlasnek]

Most of the few "studies" done, at least the one where they compared a hookah session to 400 cigarettes, did their testing by actually burning the shisha at about 800 degrees F, when it is usually burned around 250. I've been smoking hookah for a while and haven't noticed any health effects, but have recently bought a pack of cigarettes, and just from that one pack I can feel the health effects on my body. Hookah is a much safer alternative.

[huyiy]

@mlasnek i agree to this,, and the way i see it,, a cheeseburger would be more harmful

[MATTx602]

@mlasnek Smoking in general is unhealthy, but I agree with you. But your statistics are wrong. One bowl (average is 25 grams) is equivalent to 1.5 cigarettes as for the chemicals. The difference is it takes about 45 minutes to smoke a hookah bowl and 3 minutes to smoke a cigarette. But I'm like you, I've been smoking hookah since I was 14 years old and I am undoubtedly more healthy than the misinformed people who made this video.

[HZvibrations]

@QUITBecause WHO probably didn't even know how to pack their bowl. You should try out yourself this thing. Smoke a cigarette and smoke a a bowl of hookah with a friend in a hookag bar and decide wich made yourself a worse feeling. ...and make a new video then:)

[exocet123]

Want to know the Truth, just Google " BBC accused of gross exaggeration" and read the press release.

[QUITBecause]

Bear in mind, this video is not really echoing the same research presented by the BBC in their recent report. There's a reason why I didn't include their '400 - 450' figure, because '200 times more smoke' is accurate and has been confirmed by more studies. This explans the fact that shisha does not have to be smoked as regularly as a cigarette (which it usually isn't) for the dangers to surface