Other Tobacco Products like hookas are  not a safe alternative to traditional cigarettes!

Perceptions: Hookahs Safer Than Cigarettes? Wrong

Article reprinted from New York Times

At least in Canada, many young people seem to believe that hookahs and other water pipes are safer than cigarettes, researchers say.

For a study that appears in the current issue of the journal Pediatrics, scientists in Montreal mailed questionnaires in 2007 and 2008 to 1,208 people ages 18 to 24 who had participated in an earlier study of nicotine use by teenagers. Three-quarters completed the questionnaires.

Of those, 23 percent said they had smoked tobacco in a water pipe during the previous year, though most said they did so less than once a month.

In the United States, studies of college students have estimated that 9 to 20 percent have used a hookah in the previous month.

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