I'll start off by saying I've smoked MAYBE five cigarettes in my entire life.

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First thing first, WTF is a Hookah?

 

Hookah

It's not illegal... I don't do drugs.

 

I agree that I'd never smoke cigs, but I do smoke hookah every now and then. It's much more chill than a cigarette, and produces a relaxing atmosphere. But I'm no where near addicted.

 

if anything your just starting to form more of a "habit". i smoked cig's for a while and was able to quit cold turkey, i think it was b/c i just had to break the habit and not smoke cigs for the same reasons everyday.....bored at work, a nice day in the car, while drinking, etc.

 

#1, nicotine is adictive.

#2, it doesn't matter how much you think you are getting, see #1.

#3, there is nothing "chill" or not nasty about a hookah. Nicotine, and smoking tobacco in general, does not relax anybody. And smoke is smoke. Just because it comes from a fancy hookah doesn't make it clean or keep it from stinking up your place.

If you like smoking a hookah, that's fine. But at least be willing to admit you have a filthy habit and are addicted to nicotine.

 

I smoke hookah as much as I smoke cigars. Like once a year or so.

Ciggies would probably acutally be safer because they have a filter.

 

And I thought you meant "hooker".

 

Im not sure who told you that but..."A study of carbon monoxide in water-pipe and cigarette smoke found carbon monoxide concentrations of 0.34% to 1.40% for water-pipe smoke and 0.41% for cigarette smoke."

"n a separate report, the carboxyhemoglobin concentration was measured in 1832 healthy Saudi Arabian male volunteers after smoking for 10 to 40 minutes. The mean carboxyhemoglobin concentrations were higher among water-pipe smokers (10.1%) than among cigarette smokers (6.5%) or nonsmokers (1.6%), and a linear relationship was found between smoking intensity and carboxyhemoglobin concentration.21"

"A study of nicotine and cotinine in water-pipe smokers found high values of these substances after smoking. After a single 45-minute smoking session, the mean plasma concentration of nicotine rose from 1.11 to 60.31 ng/mL, and cotinine rose from 0.79 to 51.95 ng/mL. Saliva nicotine concentration rose from 1.05 to 624.74 ng/mL, and cotinine rose from 0.79 to 283.49 ng/mL. The mean amounts of nicotine and cotinine excreted in a 24-hour urine sample after smoking were 73.59

 

I smoke hooka literally 4-5 times a week. Ive been smoking the past couple years. Pretty much every night I smoke, and every single weekend. I have one, all my friends have them, and we go to hooka barsbut none of us are addicted. My friends and I have gone 2-3 weeks without smoking before and it didnt even cross our minds. I dont know what to make of that but I g2g meet my buddies at the hooka bar.