Sunday, January 16, 2011

She sells shishas by the seashore

Haji lane's teens who comfortably play cards and smoke shishas don't realise the effect of the activity on their lungs. A friend of mine who smokes told me there's less kick in shishas than in cigarettes. Funny how shishas give less of a high feeling and harms the body more - a strange inverse relationship here.

According to BBC, "measuring carbon monoxide in exhaled breath showed a normal non-smoker's level to be three parts CO per million parts of air (ppm) (less than 1% of blood not working properly), a light smoker to have 10-20 ppm (2-4% of blood not working properly), and a heavy smoker 30-40 ppm (5-7%). The study found shisha smokers had 40-70 ppm of CO in their breath - affecting 8-12% of their blood."

So people, clear your misconceptions.

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