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Can Smoking The Hookah Increase Risk For Cancers?
1. Which of sigarettes or Hookah smoking will win the fight for the Worst Bad Habit, healthwise, and why? (compare smoking sigarettes and Hookah)
2. How regularly will you need to smoke the Hookah before it will have a significant effect on the body? What part of the body ( organs) will be most affected (harmed) by smoking the Hookah? What happens to this organ and what physiological consequences will/may sprout from this
3. Can smoking the Hookah increase your risk for cancers? How can this increase the risk specifically for breastcancer and lungcancer? ( explain mechanism)
4. Is Hookah smoking addictive? What duration of smoking will cause addiction?
5. Is there any health benefits linked to smoking the Hookah? What are they?
6. Is there a chance for AIDS to be transmitted by sharing the Hookah pipe?
7. What other diseases can be transmitted by sharing the pipe? How?
8. What kind of bacteria is able to grow in the pipe or the Hookah itslef if it is not cleaned regularly and how can this be hazardous to your health?
9. W e all know you cannot smoke sigarettes when pregnant. What about Hookah?
Other important medical info that the Doctor would like people to know about the Hookah:
2. How regularly will you need to smoke the Hookah before it will have a significant effect on the body? What part of the body ( organs) will be most affected (harmed) by smoking the Hookah? What happens to this organ and what physiological consequences will/may sprout from this
3. Can smoking the Hookah increase your risk for cancers? How can this increase the risk specifically for breastcancer and lungcancer? ( explain mechanism)
4. Is Hookah smoking addictive? What duration of smoking will cause addiction?
5. Is there any health benefits linked to smoking the Hookah? What are they?
6. Is there a chance for AIDS to be transmitted by sharing the Hookah pipe?
7. What other diseases can be transmitted by sharing the pipe? How?
8. What kind of bacteria is able to grow in the pipe or the Hookah itslef if it is not cleaned regularly and how can this be hazardous to your health?
9. W e all know you cannot smoke sigarettes when pregnant. What about Hookah?
Other important medical info that the Doctor would like people to know about the Hookah:
Fri, 19 Jun 2015
Dear
Welcome to HCM
We understand your concerns
I went through your details. Hookah has all the ill effects of cigarette smoking and you cannot substitute hookah for cigarette if you are health conscious. Hookah also use tobacco for smoke and pleasure. The difference just lies in the method of usage. The best method is to leave it and continue with your will power. There are other methods like Nicotine Replacement therapy and pharmacotherapy combined. Do not try to justify bad habits, or it may boomerang as anxiety disorder.
If you require more of my help in this aspect, please use this URL. http://goo.gl/aYW2pR.
Make sure that you include every minute details possible.
Hope this answers your query. Available for further clarifications.
Good luck.
Welcome to HCM
We understand your concerns
I went through your details. Hookah has all the ill effects of cigarette smoking and you cannot substitute hookah for cigarette if you are health conscious. Hookah also use tobacco for smoke and pleasure. The difference just lies in the method of usage. The best method is to leave it and continue with your will power. There are other methods like Nicotine Replacement therapy and pharmacotherapy combined. Do not try to justify bad habits, or it may boomerang as anxiety disorder.
If you require more of my help in this aspect, please use this URL. http://goo.gl/aYW2pR.
Make sure that you include every minute details possible.
Hope this answers your query. Available for further clarifications.
Good luck.
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