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Is smoking shisha really harmful?

I do enjoy smoking it occasionally; it smells fantastic if you get the right flavor...but it's like anything else, do it every now and then and it won't hurt you in the long run, do it all the time and you're going to see the consequences eventually.

Reply 21

Divine cosmos

It's all about harm to pleasure ratio, so throw some sticky buds in the mix in order to crank up the pleasure :headbang:

Reply 22

Bhumbauze

15

I don't know but I can tell you for a fact that smoking shisha is both lame and hilarious. Not a medicine or dentistry student, are you? Ahaha.. I used to find it utterly hilarious going to a party, and there they'd all be, sat round their little shisha-bong.

Reply 23

NyLonEd

11

Tastes like ******* dust.

What is the point of it??

Reply 24

annie12188

ive heard its more harmfull.. apparently smokin 1 shisha is equivalent to a 20 deck of fags... but duno if its true.. just wat ive heard

Reply 25

Belsize_Park

soapy47

I'm a shisha addict..if I'm not smoking at home then I'm smoking outside.. :smokin:

I own 13 hookahs at home and I go smoke outside almost everyday and there's a crap place near my uni where I often go too :bumps:

But now I've been hearing that it's damaging even more so than cigarettes..is this true or are people just trying to scare me? I've been smoking it since the age of 13 so I guess I'm ****** if it's true..:surprise:

I'm just tryna figure out whether I'd actually stop even if it is true :tongue:

imp:

Haha. Are you one of those bait Asians who doesn't drink/do drugs but is super cool because they smoke Shisha?

Reply 26

soulsurvivor

I think shisha is a waste of money and time but thats my opinion.

Reply 27

Hawk Pwns Dove

It is harmful. Before people assumed it wasn't harmful as the water acted as a filter. However, recent research has indicated it can actually be worse than smoking a cigarette. Some research showed it was way more deadly than cigarettes.

Shisha tends to be what arabs and arab wannabe's (pakistani and indian muslims) smoke alot. I suggest you kick the habit and take up alcohol, feels much better :smile:

Reply 28

SB_Vision

didn't know it was addictive to be fair.... I'm very sure it is harmful

Reply 29

Dodo XD

9

Nooooo, not at all! Smoke away luv!

Reply 30

Spice_Weasel

8

Well I used to smoke it a bit with my flatmate, but there's a few things to consider.

Are you smoking flavoured tobacco or are you smoking something else, like flavoured herbal molasses?

The latter is what we used to smoke, and contains no tar / nicotine and half of the other **** you get in tobacco.

I was also led to beleive that by drawing the smoke through the water, the smoke itself is somewhat cleaner.

All in all I'd find it hard to believe that smoking molasses through a hookah can be any worse than smoking a ciggarette!

Reply 31

Phantom_X

15

beefmaster

i disagree, in many countries shisha is smoked on a daily basis by vast numbers of people, some even twice or more daily!!

yeah i meant in this country, though when i went backpacking in Syria, one of the travellers actually said him and his friends smoke it once a week, though yeah there are lots of people who smoke it on a regular basis. i guess its just like going for a ciggarette in the UK

Reply 32

beefmaster

16

Phantom_X

yeah i meant in this country, though when i went backpacking in Syria, one of the travellers actually said him and his friends smoke it once a week, though yeah there are lots of people who smoke it on a regular basis. i guess its just like going for a ciggarette in the UK

when I was living in Syria there were people who had 1 a day, or sometimes 2 a day! crazy!

Reply 33

Dark-Myth

legendstar

bbc had to retract that statement...

has it?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8214097.stm

It can be.

nah; even if it is, who cares, keep smoking :smokin:

on a side note, give me one of your 13 hookahs :king3:

Reply 36

Mali Singh

yea, iv just been Turkey, and there were ppl who spend most the day there with apple tea and a "water pipe".
Even if it is/isnt bad for u, think of how much (accumulated) time u would have wasted: isn't that harmful...

Reply 37

Nfixlol

2

Mali Singh

yea, iv just been Turkey, and there were ppl who spend most the day there with apple tea and a "water pipe".
Even if it is/isnt bad for u, think of how much (accumulated) time u would have wasted: isn't that harmful...