"According to a recent World Health Organization (WHO) advisory, a typical one-hour session of hookah smoking exposes the user to 100 to 200 times the volume of smoke inhaled from a single cigarette. Even after passing through the water, the tobacco smoke produced still contains high levels of toxic compounds, including carbon monoxide, heavy metals and cancer-causing chemicals (carcinogens)."
http://www.medic4health.com/2011/07/heal..."People who smoke shisha, or herbal tobacco, can suffer from high carbon monoxide levels, its research revealed. It found one session of smoking shisha resulted in carbon monoxide levels at least four to five times higher than the amount produced by one cigarette...The study found shisha smokers had 40-70 ppm of CO in their breath - affecting 8-12% of their blood...(more than that of a) Heavy smoker 30-40 ppm..."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8214097.stmI know of a "careful" girl who started with Shisha, and is now a cigarette smoker who can't quit! It was all fun and games... all "healthy" trendy and "in" ...now she has a future with cancer clinic if she doesn't stop! Healthy? What a bill of lies and repackaging... shisha hookah huqqa arghile narghile hubblebubble goza boori or whatever it's called is the gateway to a lifetime of smoking slavery! The facts are that one session of hookah can deliver up to a hundred times as much poison to a body because of it's smooth delivery... what most users don't know is that it as damaging or worse than smoking cigarettes!
The worst thing is that it is passed off as healthy... and it opens the gate to younger future user/addicts who will be enslaved for the rest of their lives. Like the slogan goes... "for more information about lung cancer, keep smoking."
And baby, lung cancer ain't sexy!