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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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