Oct 3, 2007

There is a myth that sheesha smoking is safer than smoking cigarettes because the sheesha smoke is filtered through water before it is inhaled. But recent studies have found that hookah smokers actually inhale more nicotine than do cigarette smokers because of the massive volume of smoke they inhale.
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Abdullah Al Alami


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