Danielle Lynch
Personal Health Science
Michelle Gifford
September 30, 2015
Hookah
The article I chose to write about is called Submission: Health risks of hookah should be recognized due to its popularity. Which as you can see, is about hookah. Hookah is a water pipe with a smoke chamber, bowl, a pipe and a hose. It became popular around the early 1990’s when tobacco companies that they were going to put a kick on tobacco by adding molasses, glycerin and fruit flavors to an unflavored tobacco product.
The creator of hookah decided that passing the tobacco through water first would render it harmless and have a less negative effect on humans. Research on the other hand has proved that water does not filter out toxins, therefore, all the negative side effects are still there. Data shows that hookah and the secondhand smoke from the water pipe are associated with cardiovascular and respiratory illnesses, low birth weight, and cancer. Researchers have stated that smoking hookah for one hour is equal to smoking 100 cigarettes.
I understand that people get addicted to these types of things very easily; but what I don’t understand is why a tobacco company feels the need to continue making more toxic products. This goes back to the Master Settlement agreement. Why would a company make something that continues to harm people or be more harmful than the last product, knowing they have to pay out money every year to the government to help pay for medical bills and warnings about their products? I feel like the tobacco company should work on a way to make their tobacco products with a little less tobacco. Why include so many harmful things that get people addicted to them? I feel like they need to make their products with less addictive ingredients. Both of my grandparents, parents, and uncle had grown up becoming smokers, and my grandfather had died from lung cancer because of smoking. I just do not agree with anything the tobacco companies do, I feel like there is no...
