Good for you/Bad for you

Thursday, September 6, 2007

As you stroll down Massachusetts Street, it’s not that hard to hear the sound of Middle Eastern music and endless amounts of laughter coming from establishments that provide hookahs. It’s speculated, partly because of the tasty tobacco concoctions you can create with hookah, that smoking the international delight is not as bad as taking a drag from a cigarette.

At the base of the hookah apparatus is a smoke chamber filled with water and people tend to think that because the smoke is filtered through the water, it’s safer.

However, according to the World Health Organization, a one-hour hookah session has 100 to 200 times the smoke volume than a single cigarette. During one sitting at a hookah bar, people inhale far more smoke, thus inhaling more nicotine and other carcinogenic compounds.

Verdict—bad for you.

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