I'm sure you are all familiar with hookah. It's pretty popular now with college aged students, but did you know it’s not that healthy for you. According to a Virginia Commonwealth University study, 43% of 744 students between the ages of 18-21 said they smoked tobacco using a hookah in the last year. 22% had in the past month and smokers thought it was less harmful than cigarettes compared to non-users. It is harmful to your body because the smoke still contains toxins as well as the addictive nicotine and because it takes longer to smoke and you hold it in longer, it is addictive.

I didn't know it was bad that bad for you. It makes me rethink whether it's even worth doing. It's more of a fun social thing to do than anything and there are so many fruit combos that are yummy tasting, but I didn't know that it contained nicotine in it.

The levels of nicotine are hardly evident, it's like .00something percent.  I don't consider it harsh at all.  I've smoked a cigarette before and it doesn't compare to smoking hookah.  But smoking hookah is also associated with drinking and smoking cigarettes too.  There's a hookah club where I live and it's a dance club too.  There's jello shots for sale and anyone can buy them.  I'm not completely sure if smoking hookah alone is addictive though. 

I just finished reading an article from a doctor who agreed that smoking hookah is just as bad as cigarettes. He said that during a one hour session of smoking hookah, the user is exposed to 100-200X the amount of smoke inhaled from 1 cigarette!!! WOW!! People think that the water filters the tobacco, but that isn’t the case… read this article, it’s interesting. http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/hookah/AN01265

But typically it's more than one person smoking a hookah, at least 2-5 so that's still not very much nicotine.  It's like sharing a cigarette once a week with 5 of your friends.  That's really not that much.  For a lot of people, this is their culture and hookah has been around for years and years.  There's not any proven evidence that hookah is as harmful as cigarette addiction.  Cigarette smokers average a lot more than one cigarette a day.