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Children smoking shisha

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  • geoffky
    geoffky Posts: 6,835 Forumite
    sovilla wrote: »

    Im a stop smoking advisor for my local NHS service

    it is just as bad even though there isnt all the harmful tar and addictive nicotine in it. .

    Can you please explain this....Please i wonder as a professional how you came to this view?
    It is nice to see the value of your house going up'' Why ?
    Unless you are planning to sell up and not live anywhere, I can;t see the advantage.
    If you are planning to upsize the new house will cost more.
    If you are planning to downsize your new house will cost more than it should
    If you are trying to buy your first house its almost impossible.
  • geoffky
    geoffky Posts: 6,835 Forumite
    sovilla wrote: »
    Im a stop smoking advisor for my local NHS service
    Also what people dont realises is the shisha pipe is passed from person to person, not steralised and can actually cause Herpes.


    So can a knife and fork...Or many other thousands of things put in the mouth..You are doing quite a job here.
    It is nice to see the value of your house going up'' Why ?
    Unless you are planning to sell up and not live anywhere, I can;t see the advantage.
    If you are planning to upsize the new house will cost more.
    If you are planning to downsize your new house will cost more than it should
    If you are trying to buy your first house its almost impossible.
  • meritaten
    meritaten Posts: 24,158 Forumite
    sovilla wrote: »
    Im a stop smoking advisor for my local NHS service and we have just recently had training on Shisha as its becoming for popular with the student population of our city. Alot of people who smoke Shisha dont actually consider it smoking however it is just as bad even though there isnt all the harmful tar and addictive nicotine in it.

    Anything that burns gives off carbon monoxide, this makes your blood thick and sticky, increases your heart rate (as it has to work harder to pump blood around your boday) and can cause cirulation problems like pins and needles in hands and feet.

    People who smoke cigarettes can have a large amount of this in their bodies, people who smoke canabis have even more in their bodies as they inhale harder and people who smoke shisha can have dangerous amounts in their bodies as one session of shisha is equivalent to smoking 100 cigarettes.

    Also what people dont realises is the shisha pipe is passed from person to person, not steralised and can actually cause Herpes.

    I pesonally think children should be kept away from anything like this, if as adults they want to smoke it then thats their choice as long as they know all the facts.

    OMG! if this is right - then you may as well buy them a carton of Benson and Hedges!
  • geoffky
    geoffky Posts: 6,835 Forumite
    meritaten wrote: »
    OMG! if this is right - then you may as well buy them a carton of Benson and Hedges!

    Another thing i would love to see the data on....I will not hold my breath.
    It is nice to see the value of your house going up'' Why ?
    Unless you are planning to sell up and not live anywhere, I can;t see the advantage.
    If you are planning to upsize the new house will cost more.
    If you are planning to downsize your new house will cost more than it should
    If you are trying to buy your first house its almost impossible.
  • meritaten
    meritaten Posts: 24,158 Forumite
    as I said - 'IF this is right!' I have never heard of this - but many things freely available abroad would be illegal here.
  • sovilla
    sovilla Posts: 187 Forumite
    edited 24 September 2013 at 10:15PM
  • lika_86
    lika_86 Posts: 1,786 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    Although it's none of your business, if you feel so strongly about it that you've created a new username to post on a forum, why don't you post a link on the photo to a website that describes the harm saying something like 'Hi, I don't know if you realised but these things aren't as safe as you might think, I only realised when a friend invited me to a shisha cafe and I looked into it', the last but may be a lie but it cushions the preachiness a bit.
  • sovilla
    sovilla Posts: 187 Forumite
    edited 24 September 2013 at 10:15PM
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  • geoffky
    geoffky Posts: 6,835 Forumite
    sovilla wrote: »

    So what it really said was IF you smoked for a Whole hour and inhaled it ALL and smoked it every 45 seconds for the hour....I would like to see someone achieve this..

    Then it goes to give you information about stopping smoking but does not tell you the facts about that....Patches have a 96% failure rate of 12 month cessation..And the other things have a worse record than that...
    It is nice to see the value of your house going up'' Why ?
    Unless you are planning to sell up and not live anywhere, I can;t see the advantage.
    If you are planning to upsize the new house will cost more.
    If you are planning to downsize your new house will cost more than it should
    If you are trying to buy your first house its almost impossible.
  • geoffky
    geoffky Posts: 6,835 Forumite
    sovilla wrote: »
    You can get herbal shisha with no tobacco.
    Then explain why it is just as bad?
    It is nice to see the value of your house going up'' Why ?
    Unless you are planning to sell up and not live anywhere, I can;t see the advantage.
    If you are planning to upsize the new house will cost more.
    If you are planning to downsize your new house will cost more than it should
    If you are trying to buy your first house its almost impossible.
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