Smoking Shisha

I read an article about smoking shisha today that intrigued my blogging appetite. So here I am blogging again after a long stop.

Although the article was not backed with proper researches and documentation, I do believe that smoking shisha is far more dangerous than cigarettes. The reason behind it is this debate itself. The fact is, no one argues how cigarettes are dangerous, we all agree to that, we all refuse to see our children smoking, but when it comes to shisha, the cute little noisy thing, oh god we love it, how can it be so harmful, it's definitely not.

Well, I am a smoker and I started by smoking shisha. Where I come from we smoke the real tobacco in shishas, we smoke the Iranian tobacco. No added ingredients, just pure tobacco. It doesn’t smoke much, but the effect is awesome, goes straight to your head. And when you clean the shisha you could see how all the black stuff is in the pipe. The shisha had a ritual then, we don't smoke it all the time, it was a kind of luxury and a socializing tool; in the evening with friends, on Sundays after lunch or at the mountains in the summer time.

Shisha is not practical and you rarely smoke a full portion on your own. You do not smoke indoors, it's dangerous. It's also an adult thing; kids cannot go in the garden and smoke a shisha without being seen.

So by all means this kind of shisha is definitely less dangerous than smoking cigarettes. First and foremost, it DOES NOT CONTAIN CHEMICALS.

Now what we see spreading in the last decade is different. The kind of tobacco that we are smoking is different, the amount of smoke is different and the feasibility is different. We now smoke the sugary tobacco; in addition to sugar it contains chemicals. Well, I don't need the WHO to tell me t hat smoking sugar is bad, its 101 chemistry, sugar burning = carbon going into my chest, and the chemicals that make the tobacco burns are not a good idea either. I can see the amount of smoke coming out, it's worse than a car and it's blackish. Do I need a research to tell me that it's worse than cigarettes? It a pure matter of calculations, just think about it how much smoke is going into your chest and touching your skin??

The fact that we do not have researches does not mean that using our logic is not a good idea. Another fact is we do not like researches in this part of the world, we are all experts and we know it all, why researching? Can you tell me about a company or a university that has got decent R&D??? And if there is do they have enough money to invest on a silly subject such as health and smoking? Researches are done out of need and demand, and the shisha is not a common practice in the R&D practicing countries, so until we export our good manners to the west and the westerners adopt our good smoking habits we will not see proper researches done on the subject. If we don't care about ourselves why anybody else should??

For almost 50 years now and all researches worldwide confirm the harmfulness of smoking cigarettes. Yet we smokers still debate, a good chunk of us denies the truth, another chunk recognizes it but ignore it. And the rest simply do not care. Now if we all switch to smoking shishas and we all allow our teen age kids to go and smoke shisha in public places and in our backyards, if we all do that based on the fact that no researches have proved yet how the shisha is harmful we will be guilt free and we can indulge in smoking and more smoking.. Let’s be optimistic and imagine that in 50 years we will have researches that cater to our needs and habits. If this happen and they prove (of course they will prove DAH!!!) how harmful shisha is, we will need at least another 50 years to accept and consider changing our habits. In Total, and if I want to be really optimistic (no kidding hun..) we need 100 years. After that time and with the accelerating rate of the “cool effect of the shisha” we will have generations of half brains, problematic health and short life span. An effect that I doubt alcohol or drugs can do it as quickly and as efficiently.


Kisses everyone!!