Hookah Is Tobacco TV Commercial

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YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD OF HOOKAH AND SHISHA BEFORE, BUT HOW MUCH TO YOU REALLY KNOW ABOUT THEM?

A Hookah is basically a big water pipe used to smoke tobacco through cold water with the use of a hose. Shisha is the fancy name for the flavored goo that people smoke out of a hookah. It doesn't look like that leafy stuff in smokes -- it looks more like colored sludge and it comes in a ton of flavors but make no mistake: they all contain tobacco.

Smoking hookahs goes as far back 500 years ago and is part of tradition in some cultures. While we respect its traditional uses, tradition doesn't make it healthy. Forget what you've heard. Here's the truth about hookahs:
Hookah smoke contains 36 times more tar than cigarette smoke.

Smoking hookah can lead to infectious disease since the same mouthpiece can be used by many people during the same smoking session.

Studies have shown that using the water as a filter in the hookah did not change the level of nicotine in the smoke compared to pipes without a water filtration process.

The sidestream smoke (smoke that comes out of a pipe, not the smoker's mouth) from a single waterpipe use session emits 30 times more carbon monoxide than a single cigarette.

A typical one-hour long waterpipe smoking session involves inhaling over 100 times the volume of the smoke inhaled with a single cigarette.

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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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Every fact in this commercial has come from scientifically controlled studies. Here are the facts:

A 1-hour session = the amount of smoke in 100 cigarettes. This is not about the toxins in the smoke, but simply the volume of smoke.

A 1-hour session = the amount of carbon monoxide in 1 pack of cigarettes. This is one of the many cancer causing ingredients in cigarettes that is in hookah smoke. There are many others in cigarettes that are not in Hookah, but this one is.

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4. Daher N, Saleh R, Jaroudi E, Sheheitli H, Badr T, Sepetdjian E, Al Rashidi M, Saliba N, Shihadeh. Comparison of carcinogen, carbon monoxide, and ultrafine particle emissions from narghile waterpipe and cigarette smoking: Sidestream smoke measurements and assessment of second-hand smoke emission factors. Atmospheric Environment. 2010, 44 (1): 8-1

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3. Shihadeh A, Antonois C, Azar, S. A portable, low-resistance pub topography instrument for pulsating, high-flow smoking devices. Behavior Research Methods. 2005, 37 (1): 186-191.

5. Shihadeh A. Towars a topographical model of narghile water-pipe café smoking: a pilot study in a high socioeconomic status neighborhood of Beirut, Lebanon. Biochemistry, Pharmacology, and Behavior. 2004, 79 (14): 75-82.

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You can check out the Smokefree Vegas website for the scientific sources of this information. Here are the peer reviewed, scietific studies where these facts come from:

1. Shihadeh A. Investigation of mainstream smoke aerosol of the narghile water pipe. Food and Chemical Toxicology. 2003, 41 (1): 143-152.

2. Maziak W, Rastam S, Ibrahim I, Ward KD, Essenberg T. Waterpipe associated particulate matter emissions. Nicotine & Tobacco Research. 2008, 10 (3): 519-523.

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[cullen949]

its funny see becasue tthere is no tar in shisha

[xxXFrenchCODguyXxx]

SHISHA DOES NOT CONTAIN TAR YOU RETARDED WOMAN, GO BACK TO THE KITCHEN!!!!

[toughmerc13]

3:you get more carbon monoxide from being outside around cars all day than you do from smoking hookah, but do you see the government doing anything to stop cars? no. this is all blame shifting paid for by the oil and tobacco companies to keep us sick and dependant.

4:have a nice day now that you know the truth :)

[toughmerc13]

1: Shisha as 0% tar and at the most .5% nicotine in it (most brands have as little as 0.05%

2: Unlike cigarettes, shisha is baked to evaporate the mixture of glycerine (found in many foods we EAT as well as stage fog) honey, and molasses. Never have i seen the shisha get burned and when it does you can TELL. your throat burns and you feel like your going to die just like when you smoke a cigarette! if you do it right you are not getting any crap in your lungs.

[Mrpvprogue]

Fuck off hookah great! If it doesn't effect you y shud u care!?

[chopper56781]

alright. obviosly this is fucking stupid. they dont put tar in even cigarettes, its made when all the chemicals burn at a certain tempature (which im not going to lie, i forgot what it was) . hookah is lit with hot coals, to "toast" the tobacco, which is already moist, which is why, if you take cig smoke, and blow it in a napkin, it will have a brown spot. a hookah smoke will not. and FYI, not very many people inhale the hookah, so go fuck a tree with your dumb lung cancer bullshit

[kioshi718]

Tar my ass. This is only because Hookah is cheaper than ciggs, they will do everything they can to skew the results for big tobacco.

[SirOzzwald]

fucking retard get your facts str8 bich

[Verkleidett]

There are 5 reasons why this PSA is complete bullshit.

1. Shisha has no tar, no chemicals, and the natural amount of nicotine which is .5%

2. Obviously no proper research has been done for this and therefore mostly, to all points are flawed.

3. The beginning of this PSA is fucking obnoxious

4. Too many uploader comments which makes it look self-concious that even the PSA doubts itself

5. That bitch either needs a cock in her mouth, or she better get my sandwich from the kitchen

[MegaDanuz]

Stop talking nonsense and do a proper research, i m ready to take part of the research, let connect a hookha to a filter and than we do the same with only 10 Cigarette and let see if your claim have any substance to it.

[elnatateta]

well watermelon contains a lott off carbon monoxide its good for the blood flow