A Note to the Shisha Smokers

[Jacaylbaro]

Shisha Smoking Is More Harmful Than Cigarettes

 

According to the French anti-tobacco agency (OFT), a report from the French national laboratory revealed that smoking shisha gives off as much carbon monoxide as 15 to 52 cigarettes and as much tar as 27 to 102 cigarettes.

 

Bertrand Dautzenberg, OFT President said, "The report confirms that smoking shisha is a major source of air pollution in closed and covered areas. If comparing the data to regular cigarette smoke, one shisha corresponds to an average of around 70 drags on a cigarette."

 

The tests were conducted by Laboratoire National d'Essais (LNE) on three types of shisha: shisha with self-lighting carbon used in small amounts, self-lighting carbon used in large amounts, and natural carbon shisha used in small volumes.

 

The laboratory used the three parameters that are measured when analysing smoke on a packet of cigarettes: the amount of tar, nicotine, and carbon monoxide.

 

For 70 liters (16 gallons) of smoke produced by the shisha, the small amount self lighting carbon tar results were measured at 319 milligrams, 32 times the legal European limit for a cigarette, while the large amount self-lighting carbon measured at 266 milligrams, 27 times the cigarette limit, and the natural carbon measured at 1,023 milligrams, a 102 times more than a cigarette.

 

Carbon monoxide measurements fared badly as well, as tests indicated that the carbon measurements from the three types of shisha came to 17 times the normal cigarette limit, 15 times, and 52 times the limit.

 

The self-lighting carbon in both large and small amounts for nicotine measured about one cigarette per shisha, while the natural carbon was the nicotine equivalent of smoking six cigarettes.

 

France's hookah-pipe bars pleaded to be spared from a ban on smoking in cafes and restaurants which comes into force on January 1 2008.

 

 

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[Jacaylbaro]

Walee rag aan ogahay waa loo yaabaa

[Cara.]

And there are some who somehow think sisha smoking must be safer because the water "filters" the smoke!

 

**Mmmm, apple flavor**

[Paragon]

Double apple dheh.

[Cara.]

No, no, that just masks the intoxicating tar and nicotine flavors.

[Paragon]

^^Maybe thats 'cos you are covering the coal with foil? Simply apple doesn't cut Cara, for someone I know

 

I think you are making single apple appealing 'cos its all you can take?

[Cara.]

^No, it's because my taste is so much more sophisticated than yours. The only parameter for you is how strong the flavor is, whereas I uh don't really know what double apple is but I'm going to BS for a bit anyway...

[Ibtisam]

^^^LOoool ^^HAhaha lool.

 

Xubeer; Shisha is so few years ago, it is not cool anymore.

[Nephissa]

Originally posted by Cara:

**Mmmm, apple flavor**

Relax and try other things in it, I hear that weed is pretty fun out of them too.

[Blessed]

Ghanima,

 

LOL! True. I don't know how sheesha became a symbol of coolness, I've always associated it with Cadmaawi (Yemeni) habro.

[Jacaylbaro]

The smell makes me vomit and causes me a terrible headache ,,,,, that explains

[Cara.]

Originally posted by Nephthys:

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Originally posted by Cara:

**Mmmm, apple flavor**

Relax and try other things in it, I hear that weed is pretty fun out of them too.

You "hear" huh? Sure sure. Well what I heard is that Reefer Madness was based on one of your slower days.

 

[Paragon]

^^You could have a more 'sophisticated' taste, but I refuse to believe that you are a better taster than I am .

 

Sampled many flaviours but couldnt find any sophistication in them. Tell you what, I think its how strong a flava is that counts in my book. I know someone hooked on mint only but thats not for me.

 

Ghanima, darling, its not cool. It can get hot at times

[Cara.]

^That just shows how unsophisticated you are. Really hot shisha is very very cool

[Paragon]

^^I was never famed for sophistication but I know what I like to smoke . Oh yeah its cool, a hot one is cool .