just read a few articles regarding shisha or hookah. not just because i hate smoking, which by the way i really do. there’s a connotation that shisha is safer than cigar. and by all means, please read them too. i learned a lot from those excerpts.

shisha, according to my self-induced research is a flavored tobacco that is smoked using hooka. Hooka has water to filter (but it doesn’t at all) all the toxins that makes it safe (which is not).

“Q: What are the health risks of smoking shisha with a hookah?

A: “Shisha smoking,” according to Wikipedia, “is generally believed to be less damaging to health than cigarettes. Research has shown that since the tobacco is being heated (as opposed to burned), fewer carcinogens are produced in the smoke.
“Recent research, however, published in the medical journal Pediatrics has argued that the concentration of cancer-causing and addictive substances in water-pipes can be higher than those found in cigarettes. A study of Egyptian couples found an association between water-pipe smoking and infertility.”
The American Cancer Society’s Web site puts it this way: “Hookah smoke contains nicotine, carbon monoxide and other hazardous substances. Several types of cancer, as well as other negative health effects, have been linked to hookah smoking.””

here are some of the websites i found. click on them, com’on!

http://hookah-information.com/hookah_answers.htm

http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v3/news_lite.php?id=203198

http://cancer.about.com/od/smokingandcancer/a/hookah.htm

http://www.tobacco.org/articles/category/shisha/

http://www.sacrednarghile.com/en/index.php