CDC: Cigar and Hookah Smoking Up—Among High School Students

Cybercast News Service ^ | November 15, 2013 - 4:59 PM | Terence P. Jeffrey

[MUDDOG]

A hookah-smoking caterpillar has given them the call.

[ClearCase_guy]

Not too long ago, the big problem was smoking. People smoked and had heart attacks and were out of shape, and had poor health.
But many people stopped smoking.
The current problem -- and Michelle will tell you -- is obesity. People eat too much and have heart attacks and are out of shape, and have poor health.

Has anyone noticed that smokers are often thin and that non-smokers are often fat?
Maybe people just tend to have heart attacks? Maybe neither the smoking nor the obesity is quite as a big a deal as the Nanny State would like to believe.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Yep and smokers won’t quit (especially the female smokers) because they were afraid they would gain weight.

[GeronL]

As American gets dumber, we can expect this I guess

[ClearCase_guy]

I saw some tacky internet slideshow not too long ago -- "Celebrities who smoke! You'll be amazed!!"

The vast majority were young Hollywood starlets who were amazingly thin. I'm pretty sure they smoke because it helps them look the way they "have to".

[dead]

What goes in a hookah?

[Rebelbase]

Flavored tobacco called Shisha is smoked in a hookah.

My kids have one. They buy $20 or $30 worth of tobacco and it’s the center of the party with their friends for a couple of weekends then it sits in the corner for a month until one of them decides to go across town to the smoke shop for more shisha.

[dead]

Thanks! I had no idea.

[Olog-hai]

Materials normally smoked.

[BipolarBob]

I wanted to start smoking so I could lose weight but hated the taste and mess. I just didn’t have the willpower.

[digger48]

What goes in a hookah?

Depends on the price she's asking....

[JudyinCanada]

All my life I didn’t smoke. A few years ago my grown son, daughter, and son-in-law were having a cigar with some Triple Sec while we were sitting around a nice fire at the lake. They got me to try one. Bad move - now I love them. They have all since stopped smoking them, but I still have one now and again. I especially love the chocolate flavoured ones!

[Rebelbase]

I was clueless about it until earlier in the year. There’s a lump of some kind of camel dung (maybe?) charcoal about an inch and half square that they have to light on the stove. That thing goes into a container and the tobacco sits on top or below, can recall, separated by a screen.

When they do the puff thing the draw forces the heat onto the tobacco and lights it. It’s so moist it won’t burn on its own.

I tried it a couple of times, noting to write home about.

A hookah is for social smoking. It sits in the center of the room and the hose gets passed around.

I think it’s more a fad than anything. Certainly not going to replace cigarettes for those who must smoke.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

I used to go to similar parties but the “tobacco” was a lot more expensive.

[JoanneSD]

Lots of kids are using electronic cigs, and the government is starting to panic, as they are losing the tax revenue off cigarettes...what will the sick children do without the cigarette tax?/s to support their health care programs,

[Dalberg-Acton]

These are very tasty:

[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

What ever the caterpillar wants.

[nomad]

They are not smoking cigars, they`re smoking “blunts”. Look that one up people, ranks with terms like “purple drank”.

[Mastador1]

Hookah smoking up among high school students? Last week I pulled up next to a Grandma smoking a Hookah in her damn car! And I’m pretty sure it wasn’t “tobacco”.