Can you addicted to hookah

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Accessed March 4, World Health Organization. Eissenberg T, Shihadeh A. AJPM; , 37 6 Maziak W, et al. The smoker inhales it through a long tube. The practice of smoking with a water pipe dates back several hundred years and is traditional in India, Persia and the Middle East. The act of smoking with a hookah is social.

Where smoking cigarettes is a personal event, people gather around a hookah to smoke together, sometimes for hours. The tobacco and other mixtures used in a hookah are often flavored and may have less nicotine than cigarettes. The fruit and candy flavors make hookah smoke less harsh and can give the false sense of being safer than cigarette smoke.

In the U. Most of these places are exempt from indoor smoking laws. Hookah is most popular with young men between the ages of 18 and A survey also found that 17 percent of high school seniors reported smoking hookah. A common misconception about hookah is that it is not addictive , or at least not as addictive as cigarettes. Many hookah blends are lower in nicotine than cigarettes, but studies have found that users may be getting just as much nicotine as cigarette smokers.

This is because hookah smokers are exposed to more smoke.