I used to be just lately contacted by a lady whose 16-year-old daughter and her associates have made their new “hang around spot” a hookah bar. Naturally, the mom was involved. She wrote:
“I do not know a lot about hookah bars, however a fast Google search knowledgeable me that they are smoking one thing referred to as Shisha which can even be extra harmful than cigarettes. I requested my daughter about it and he or she and her associates are all below the impression that it is virtually innocent as a result of the smoke is filtered by water. May you shed a bit of light on this for us?”
Hookah bars appear to be popping up in every single place and are one thing many mother and father are questioning about nowadays. In truth, I used to be a kind of mother and father when a business shopper took our personal daughter to a Hookah bar a couple of in the past. She was already an grownup and due to this fact capable of make her personal choices about smoking, however I used to be nonetheless a involved mother or father questioning what all of the hoopla about Hookah was about.
For individuals who could not find out about Hookah, here is a “little light” on the topic:
– Before everything, Hookah isn’t any safer to inhale than cigarettes.
– A hookah is a water pipe with a smoke chamber, a bowl, a pipe and a hose. Specifically made tobacco is heated, and the smoke passes by water and is then drawn by a rubber hose to a mouthpiece.
– The tobacco isn’t any much less poisonous in a hookah pipe, and the water within the hookah doesn’t filter out the poisonous components within the tobacco smoke.
– Hookah people who smoke may very well inhale extra tobacco smoke than cigarette people who smoke do due to the big quantity of smoke they inhale in a single smoking session, which may final so long as 60 minutes.
– As with cigarette smoking, hookah smoking is linked to lung and oral cancers, coronary heart illness, and different severe diseases.
– Hookah smoking delivers about the identical quantity of nicotine as cigarette smoking, probably resulting in tobacco dependence.
– Hookah pipes utilized in hookah bars and cafes will not be cleaned correctly, risking the unfold of infectious illnesses.
My suggestion to the mom was that she sit down along with her daughter and clarify these details after which, if her daughter nonetheless thinks Hookah smoking is secure, take her on a web search collectively. Simply kind in, “Is hookah smoking harmful?” or one thing related and you’ll discover loads of good data that may shed loads of light on the topic. You would possibly begin on the Mayo Clinic web site the place the knowledge above got here from Eastern Ray Shisha Hire:
The underside line is that I like to recommend that you simply deal with Hookah smoking simply as you’d any use of tobacco: 1. Discuss it brazenly with respect and caring; 2. Clarify why it isn’t okay for teenagers to make use of these substances, and attempt to get settlement on this; three. Arrange logical penalties if essential to implement a “no use” rule.
I hope that any daughter (and son for that matter) involves the identical conclusion as ours did and chooses to keep away from tobacco in any type, together with hookah bars.