igarette smoking is down, thanks to fines and taxes on cigarette
companies that fund anti-smoking campaigns - but hookah (water pipe) use
is up. A new paper in Cancer Causes and Control worries that almost one in four high school seniors may try smoking hookah and 78,200 youth are current water pipe users.
Science 20 - Water pipes work by bubbling tobacco smoke through water, leading some
users to believe that they carry less risk than cigarettes. The study,
which analyzed data from the national 2012-2013 Youth Smoking Survey,
found that over a third of youth believe it is less harmful to smoke
tobacco in a water pipe than smoking a cigarette.
The Canadian Cancer Society
reports lung cancer as the leading cause of cancer death in Canada and
claim that 85 percent of lung cancer cases are related to using tobacco
products, though that figure is in defiance of other countries,
where 50 percent of lung cancer patients never smoked at all. To get 85
percent, they instead include second- and third-hand smoke as 'tobacco
us', along with cigars and pipes, which are not inhaled at all. To-date,
there is no evidence that second-hand smoke or cigars or pipes have
ever caused lung cancer or any other illness.
2 comments:
I believe it's properly referred to as a BONG---is this really news, Sam? Exactly how 'L7' have you been through these years? And to think, i arrived at this site via a recommendation in a Nat in the Village Voice---just shows to go you that about making certain assumptions.
In the mean time, i'm going to go tend to my lawn, and yes, i am referring to grass.
Flat five to all of you hipsters...
Few young people take up hookah smoking as the equivalent of a pack a day habit. Most try a hookah and find it fun on occasion, but it is a bit fiddly for a daily habit. Traditional hookahs don't seem to be the main problem with teens taking up tobacco.
It's those stupid e-cigs that are really getting kids hooked. Frequently I see teens and young adults walking around sucking on those vapes, like a baby with a bottle, fouling the air with some horrid fake fruit stench. My daughter is 20 and she has several friends who would never smoke a ciggarette, but they can't be away from their e-cig for 5 minutes. E-cigs are the real culprit in hooking youth on tobacco.
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