Historic quoteworthy statements: -“Smoking from a hookah during a typical 45-minute session is equivalent to smoking about 100 cigarettes, [Thomas] EISSENBERG said” (ABC News, 01 June 2011)[1]. -“Shisha 200 times worse than a cigarette” say Middle East experts [interview with Wasim MAZIAK and Alan SHIHADEH (Action on Smoking and Health, 27 March 2007 [2]. The […]

We usually comment on the pseudo-science to be found in academic journals or reports published by international “public health” agencies such as the WHO, for instance. We will make an exception today with a text authored by “Sam Ball” which appeared under title “Shisha: Truth behind Smokescreens” in “The Gazelle”, a student publication from the […]

“In a study that they said provides no support for the popular notion that hookahs are safer than cigarettes, they reported that hookah tobacco and smoke contain lower levels of four toxic metals than cigarette tobacco and smoke. It was part of the 246th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS), the […]

From a recent article published by Dr Brad Rodu on his own “blog” (amazingly titled “Tobacco Truth”….)[1], it is now clear that most new «Tobacco Harm Reduction (THR)» advocates (*), particularly those having received funding from the tobacco industry (dubbed Big Tobacco), have now jumped on the global anti- ««waterpipe»» (warcode name) wagon driven by the […]