All should be minimum, radiation has a permissible level but others have no

Very nice photographs. The first photo being from my region.

These photographs remind me my childhood when in early morning everyday I used to participate in cleaning of hukka along with my grandfather. In fact it is much safer to use traditional hukka compared to cigarette as water and water vapours play some role. Although none is recommended. I remember the water of used hukka was almost black due to smoke. Radiation may not be much different but water and vapours may attach some aerosol or alphas etc.

Now a days hukka are show piece in drawing room and I saw none in my village or surrounding regions using hukka.

Toxic chemicals in tobacco smoke are the main reason cigarettes cause cancer, but radiation also plays a part. Cigarette smokers inhale radionuclides that build up over time in the lungs and other parts of the body. According to WHO report (http://www.who.int/tobacco/global_interaction/tobreg/Waterpipe%20recommendation_Final.pdf), a hookah smoking session may expose the smoker to more smoke over a longer period of time than occurs when smoking a cigarette. Also, due to the method of smoking—including frequency of puffing, depth of inhalation, and length of the smoking session—hookah smokers may absorb higher concentrations of the same toxins found in cigarette smoke.

First of all I'm grateful for answering my question, my question is dose the tobacco used in cigarette is more radiological dangerous or the tobacco used in Narghile, or they are same in dangerous?

This relates to the type of cigarette or Narghile

Hi Ali,

Thank you very much for answer , but dose the tobacco plants used for manufacturing cigarette is the same plants used for Narghile?

it may be need to anlysis the intial sources of each them for radioactivity but in general each type has a sufficient toxicty compere to its content of radiation so in general its toxic

Dear Dr. Mostafa ,

thank you very much for answering my question.

The amount of radiation will depend on the quantity of radioactive species after filtration either via cotton or water. Thus, a precise spectroscopy of smoke before inhaling can only estimate the dose of radiation in either case.

Here is something usually ignored in anti-smoking discussions. Only about 5% of cigarette smokers will develop lung or throat cancer; the unfortunate thing is that over 90% of those who do will die from it. The odds are in one's favor if they enjoy smoking. Of course, the decrease in lung capacity, acuity of smell and taste, and the ever-present odor of stale smoke on one's clothes and self, affect all smokers.

As regards Hooka smoking, I just remember stopping at a truck stop on the way back from Alexandria to Cairo, Egypt; I enjoyed trying a Hooka along with many of the others at the stop. I am normally not a smoker.

doug reilly

Dear Dr. Mazhar Hussain,

thank you for answering my question.

Hi DOUGLAS

Thank you very much for your intersting answer

Always, the radiation smoking cigarette is more dangerous.

smoking Narghile

researchers could prove that smoking of Narghil is more dangerous than Cigarette

Smoking Narghile because the smoke will absorbed directly from mucous membrane of oral cavity and needs no reaching to site of exchange at the alveoli

Compared with a single cigarette, smoking hookah for “one session” delivers 25 times the tar, 125 times the smoke, 2.5 times the nicotine, and 10 times the carbon monoxide, according to research from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. And hookahs aren't only dangerous for the people partaking.