On the Hookah Smoker

I'm a non-smoker. That's one thing I could confirm with you right here, right now. I wasn't a smoker, am not and will not ever be, be it cigars, cigarettes or what a lot of youngsters are smoking nowadays called the Hookah (Indian) or Shisha (Arabic) or ghalyun (Pakistani).

See. It's like smoking through water. They say the water helps to filter out the nicotine and whatever toxic contents in the smoke that could help them reduce the risk of whatever smokers are warned of. To top it all, you get to choose if you want to smoke a flavored smoke. So you get all the different flavors, grapes orange apple pineapple who knows what else. Instead of getting the regular usual smoke sticking to your shirts, now you smell like them fruits! Only, smellier.

There's the first room in my dorm at the entrance where the tenants smoke this waterpipe shits. It was very obvious someone's smoking because the smell is just so strong. You could already tell someone's on Shisha before you even enter the dorm corridor. And to top it all, it seemed like a lot of the smokers were so ever eager in smoking this shits.

I'm pretty disgusted really.

A lot of Hookah smokers thought it is less dangerous to smoke this waterpipe as compared to normal cigarettes. From what I gather, the water moisture makes it easier to smoke and could filter out the chemicals in the smoke. BUT apparently, from what I found out in the net, a lot of the researchers including that of Mayo Clinic and WHO, have stated that Shisha is as detrimental as cigarettes. In fact, in another study, waterpipe smokers have 5 times higher risks of getting gum disease and lung cancer! Apparently it was found out that the water filter thingy gives people false impression because it doesn't actually filters out the chemicals in the smoke entirely. On top of that, both the WHO and the American Cancer Society reported that Hookah smoker consume about 100 to 200 times and about 70 times the nicotine as they do in a cigarette.

But then again, I don't think all these statistics could give much impact to all these smokers considering they were all somewhat addicted as it seems.