Healthy Hookah?

A popular item for persons eighteen or older happens to be the middleastern tobacco pipe, Hookah. The hookah is a water pipe that uses shisha, a moist tobacco usually mixed with a type of flavored syrup and when lit is filtered through cold water at the bottom of the pipe which is where many myths are thought up, one being the belief that the water filters all harmful agents from the smoke, which is wrong. The hookah's smoke which is cooled through water prevents the burning of your lungs but still contains as much harmful carcinogens as a normal cigarette. Another interesting fact that many may not be aware of is that Shisha is as addictive as cigarettes, in one 60 minute session it is possible to inhale 100 to 200 times the smoke of one cigarette which makes many to believe that smoking hookah maybe even more addictive then smoking a cigarette. Harmful effects of the hookah include lung cancer, dental diseases, and or heart disease. Hopefully this will provide the knowledge to make safer choices when indulging in new fads among young adults.