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dairyairy
Joined: 17 May 2012
Location: South Korea
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 Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 11:17 pm Post subject: Be careful smoking waterpipes in Itaewon restaurants |
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http://news.yahoo.com/shisha-smoking-bad-cigarettes-lungs-study-183617996.html
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Shisha smoking as bad as cigarettes for lungs: study
..Water-pipe smoking is as bad as deeply inhaling cigarette smoke when it comes to causing respiratory problems, according to a study published on Thursday.
Researchers led by Mohammad Hossein Boskabady at Masshad University of Medical Sciences in Iran monitored lung functions among 57 local water-pipe smokers, 30 deep-inhalation cigarette smokers and 51 normal-inhalation smokers.
They also studied 44 non-smokers for a comparison.
Wheezing occurred among 23 percent of the water-pipe users, 30 percent of the deep-inhalation and 21.6 percent of normal-inhalation cigarette smokers, but only among 9.1 percent of non-smokers.
Coughing occurred among 21 percent, 36.7 percent and 19.6 percent of the smoking groups, compared with 6.8 percent of non-smokers, according to the probe, which measured smokers over three months in two consecutive years.
Sputum production, meanwhile, was found in 14 percent, 10 percent, 3.9 per cent respectively among the various smoking groups, but among 6.8 percent of the non-smoking group.
The results, published in the peer-reviewed journal Respirology, adds a further scientific blow to the defenders of shisha who claim that water pipes are safer because they filter out tobacco toxins.
The water pipe, often used with sweet or fruit-flavoured tobacco, is a centuries-old tradition in the Middle East but in recent years has become fashionable among young westerners, particularly women.
"Our findings reveal that there were profound effects of water-pipe smoking on lung function values, which were similar to the effects observed in deep-inhalation cigarette smokers," Boskabady said in a press release.
"Normal" inhalation cigarette smoking had less of an effect compared to the water pipe, but still contributed significantly to respiratory disorders, the paper stressed.
According to a 2005 study by the UN World Health Organisation (WHO), water pipe smoke has high concentrations of toxic compounds, including carbon monoxide, heavy metals, cancer-causing chemicals and potentially addictive levels of nicotine.
Cigarette smokers typically take eight to 12 puffs over five to seven minutes, inhaling a total of 0.5 to 0.6 of a litre of smoke.
In contrast, waterpipe sessions typically last 20-80 minutes, during which the smoker may take 50-20 puffs which each range from 0.15 to one litre each.
"The waterpipe smoker may therefore inhale as much smoke during one session as a cigarette smoker would inhale consuming 100 or more cigarettes," the WHO said.
The Iranian research used a gadget called a spirometer to measure how deeply smokers inhaled and retained the puff.
"Normal" inhalers typically inhaled less than 10 percent above a benchmark of lung inflation called tidal volume. For "deep" inhalers, it was typically more than 30 percent, and for water-pipe smokers it was usually 40 percent above tidal volume.
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Trip
Joined: 28 Dec 2008
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| Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2012 6:50 am Post subject: |
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| Gr8 in Hongdae is one of the best places to smoke shisha. |
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The Cosmic Hum
Joined: 09 May 2003
Location: Sonic Space
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| Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2012 8:55 am Post subject: |
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| Wheezing occurred among 23 percent of the water-pipe users, 30 percent of the deep-inhalation and 21.6 percent of normal-inhalation cigarette smokers, but only among 9.1 percent of non-smokers. |
WTF?
This study is totally bogus...but good for a laugh.
Why is anybody wheezing in this study...is it a marathon smoke fest?
Why would wheezing occur at all in non-smokers?
Ok...everybody give me 4 hits on the bong then 60 push ups in a minute.
You...non-smokers...spin 4 times then give me 60...that's right you heard me...drop and give me 60...gaddamn non-smoking pussies.
But sure enough, someone got grant money to run this study.  |
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Son Deureo!
Joined: 30 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2012 9:30 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm really disappointed to learn about the results of this study. I thought that smoking flavored tobacco out of a water pipe was actually good for me. |
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Dave Chance
Joined: 30 May 2011
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| Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2012 9:53 pm Post subject: |
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| actually yea that stuff can leave u pretty raspy |
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JustinC
Joined: 10 Mar 2012
Location: We Are The World!
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| Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2012 10:18 pm Post subject: |
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| The Cosmic Hum wrote: |
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| Wheezing occurred among 23 percent of the water-pipe users, 30 percent of the deep-inhalation and 21.6 percent of normal-inhalation cigarette smokers, but only among 9.1 percent of non-smokers. |
WTF?
This study is totally bogus...but good for a laugh.
Why is anybody wheezing in this study...is it a marathon smoke fest?
Why would wheezing occur at all in non-smokers?
Ok...everybody give me 4 hits on the bong then 60 push ups in a minute.
You...non-smokers...spin 4 times then give me 60...that's right you heard me...drop and give me 60...gaddamn non-smoking pussies.
But sure enough, someone got grant money to run this study. |
You've never heard a non-smoking grandpa climb some stairs? |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2012 11:38 am Post subject: |
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| Thank goodness I smoke only out of waterpipes in Hongdae restaurants so I shouldn't have to worry about this study. The study from that pinnacle of internationally renowned research- Masshad University of Medical Sciences in Iran |
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orosee
Joined: 07 Mar 2008
Location: Hannam-dong, Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2012 4:35 pm Post subject: |
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This is what I take home from this study (I smoke):
Inhaling the same as not inhaling.
I feel good.
Next study: Spitting not safer than swallowing. |
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fermentation
Joined: 22 Jun 2009
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Next study: Spitting not safer than swallowing. |
I'll help fund this study. |
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Chalmers
Joined: 20 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2012 7:22 pm Post subject: Re: Be careful smoking waterpipes in Itaewon restaurants |
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| dairyairy wrote: |
http://news.yahoo.com/shisha-smoking-bad-cigarettes-lungs-study-183617996.html
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Shisha smoking as bad as cigarettes for lungs: study
..Water-pipe smoking is as bad as deeply inhaling cigarette smoke when it comes to causing respiratory problems, according to a study published on Thursday.
Researchers led by Mohammad Hossein Boskabady at Masshad University of Medical Sciences in Iran monitored lung functions among 57 local water-pipe smokers, 30 deep-inhalation cigarette smokers and 51 normal-inhalation smokers.
They also studied 44 non-smokers for a comparison.
Wheezing occurred among 23 percent of the water-pipe users, 30 percent of the deep-inhalation and 21.6 percent of normal-inhalation cigarette smokers, but only among 9.1 percent of non-smokers.
Coughing occurred among 21 percent, 36.7 percent and 19.6 percent of the smoking groups, compared with 6.8 percent of non-smokers, according to the probe, which measured smokers over three months in two consecutive years.
Sputum production, meanwhile, was found in 14 percent, 10 percent, 3.9 per cent respectively among the various smoking groups, but among 6.8 percent of the non-smoking group.
The results, published in the peer-reviewed journal Respirology, adds a further scientific blow to the defenders of shisha who claim that water pipes are safer because they filter out tobacco toxins.
The water pipe, often used with sweet or fruit-flavoured tobacco, is a centuries-old tradition in the Middle East but in recent years has become fashionable among young westerners, particularly women.
"Our findings reveal that there were profound effects of water-pipe smoking on lung function values, which were similar to the effects observed in deep-inhalation cigarette smokers," Boskabady said in a press release.
"Normal" inhalation cigarette smoking had less of an effect compared to the water pipe, but still contributed significantly to respiratory disorders, the paper stressed.
According to a 2005 study by the UN World Health Organisation (WHO), water pipe smoke has high concentrations of toxic compounds, including carbon monoxide, heavy metals, cancer-causing chemicals and potentially addictive levels of nicotine.
Cigarette smokers typically take eight to 12 puffs over five to seven minutes, inhaling a total of 0.5 to 0.6 of a litre of smoke.
In contrast, waterpipe sessions typically last 20-80 minutes, during which the smoker may take 50-20 puffs which each range from 0.15 to one litre each.
"The waterpipe smoker may therefore inhale as much smoke during one session as a cigarette smoker would inhale consuming 100 or more cigarettes," the WHO said.
The Iranian research used a gadget called a spirometer to measure how deeply smokers inhaled and retained the puff.
"Normal" inhalers typically inhaled less than 10 percent above a benchmark of lung inflation called tidal volume. For "deep" inhalers, it was typically more than 30 percent, and for water-pipe smokers it was usually 40 percent above tidal volume.
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Thanks for the tip Sojusucks...errr dairyairy. |
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