Hookah, the "safe" drug?

                                                                                   Hardly.                         

Hookah has a reputation for being the “safe” and “healthy” form of smoking. You don’t get high off of it like you do with marijuana, and you aren’t inhaling tar like you are with cigarettes. So it’s totally safe, right? WRONG.

Hookah is dangerous in so many ways. The actual hookah consists of a glass base, a metal pipe, a hose, a bowl and a mouth piece. Inside of it there is crude cut tobacco, nicotine, aluminum foil and smokeless coal. Sounds “safe” to inhale, right? Not even close. Inhaling ingredients such as smokeless coal and tobacco is very dangerous. Your mouth, throat and stomach could all suffer from such ingredients being inhaled.  Hookah can also sometimes have drugs such as weed or “marijuana” in them, which can cause various problems in certain people.

Let’s say you can look past all of the ingredients. Well then, we’ll focus on some other aspects.

      Hookahs are a social “drug.” People pass the hookah around and each take a “hit” off of the same mouth piece. Not only is this disgusting, it is completely unsanitary. Smoking also puts stress on your lungs, as does any form of smoking. Putting this much stress on your lungs makes them more susceptible to infections.

 

                         To sum it up in just a few words, this “safe” drug isn’t so safe after all.