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They're both carcinogenic even though hookah does feel a lot milder and a lot less irritating.

Okay Well, I don't know if that's true
But I've read that a hookah "one-hour" session is equivalent of 40-100 cigarettes or so.
This seems kind of crazy

Dont feel like going into a lot of detail and start arguing about it but hookah shisha isnt burned, its baked thus not as bad as cigarettes.

troll science ftw, you seem to imply that baking something inherently makes is non carcinogenic, winning.

.... use common sense here. How much tobacco (in volume) would 40-100 cigarettes take? And here is a pic of a normal hookah bowl



You fill half of that.. like 1-2 tbs of Shisha. You can only smoke as much tobacco as there is in the bowl.. Most people who smoke for hours do multiple bowls, but even then that is not 40-100 cigs.

I sometimes smoke socially with friends. Just something stupid for us teenagers to do.

Using common sense..you can't think the volume of a cigarette is it's own volume in tobacco. There's something like 0.4grams of tobacco in each cigarette and I'll tell you, that bowl can hold well over 100 times that (also not all shisa bowls are the same).

Anyway as for it being 'as bad' as that..Not completely true. Depends on how many hits you take as well as the the temperature used to burn it. (Higher temp = worse for the most part).


And OT
No cigs, yes weed, yes shisha, yes (very) occasional cigars.

Smoking is horrible.. Worst habit ever. Never, ever going to try it. Type in on Youtube 'The Business behind getting high - The Union'. Pretty interesting docco about weed.

I smoke, on average, a (25) pack of cigarettes a day, and about an ounce of weed a week - give or take

Not gonna waste money to shorten my life.

never got into smoking anything. not to say i never tried it, just isn't worth dropping $ on to me.

Well put.

Socially on occasion. Usually after many alcoholic drinks and then I regret it the next day.

Purple burning in my chest and a big bouquet of mary jane flowers

I've smoked like 3 packs in my life and I was drunk every time. I recently started using Swedish snus while drinking.

I quit smoking 11 months ago

Well done on quitting! Keep it up

I tried doing loops on a cold day, not hardcore enough to pull them out.

Aside from that, I'll go to the shisha bar once in a while.