Clearing the Smoke

The Truth About Smoking Hookah

Facts:

  • Youth who are first-time smokers are picking up a hookah pipe more often than a cigarette.
  • Hookah is not a safe way to smoke tobacco.
  • Herbal shisha is not healthier than tobacco shisha.
  • Hookah, narghile, goza, hubble, bubble; whatever you call it, if you are smoking shisha, you are smoking.

Hookah with call-out boxes describing individual parts

References

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  3. Non-Smokers’ Rights Association (NSRA). (2012). Waterpipe smoking in Canada: new trend, old tradition. Retrieved April 28, 2015, from Waterpipe Smoking in Canada: New Trend, Old Tradition
  4. Zhang, B., Haji, F., Kaufman, P., Muir, S., & Ferrence, R. (2013). ‘Enter at your own risk’: a multimethod study of air quality and biological measures in Canadian waterpipe cafes. Tobacco Control , 0:1–7. doi:10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2013-051180