I recently bought a small hookah, some coals, and a 50 gram bag of sweet melon shisha at a local smoke shop, and it is wonderful! It is aiding me greatly in my quest to stay away from cigarettes, and besides tasting better and being more pleasureable than cigs, it has no tar, and .05% nicotine!Thomas Eissenberg, a professor of psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University co-authored a review on hookah smoking which found that a session of hookah smoking which lasts about 45 minutes, delivers 1/60th the tar, 1/10th the carbon monoxide and 1/200th the nicotine than a single cigarette. Safer and more pleasurable! Now there’s a combonation you don’t see everyday! Anyone else here like hookah?
I do! 
In my grandparents’ house there used to be this huge table nargheele (similar—if not equal—to a hooka), and I used to be fascinated by it. (This is from when we were still rich, so every memory about the whole place—which positively looked like a castle—is somewhat overwhelming. So I stand corrected, perhaps it was more of a charming thing which in me memory ended up rendering bigger than it was. But it did look fabuous anyhow.)
The first time I smoked, it was on a hooka. The shisha was just regular shisha (i.e. not scented, nor hasheesh), but instead of water we used vodka (there’s a quirk for doing so, I’ll explain it to you on another occasion). Indeed smoking the shisha is way more pleasurable and desireable (and now you tell me it’s also safer) than smoking those death batons. Argh. I’m addicted to cigarretes again, have been trying to quit for a month. I stopped buying packs, but people keep offering me! 
And I, stupid stupid stupid, don’t stop to think, I just take it. Why did I start smoking again to begin with?
Worst thing is, and you, being a Yank, can’t possibly know how serious this is, I’m addicted to those Cuban “Popular” cigs, which are 12 1.0 12 and whose filter is possibly only just 1.5 cm (your thumb across, around the height of your nail). Perhaps I should buy a hooka myself… I does feel nicer (read, less sick). =P
I tried to quit buy not buying packs anymore, but that never works. People just give 'em to to you, or you ask for them, or whatever. You just gotta quit. And about the popular cigs, I can relate, I used to smoke Bali Shag, a dark halfzware blend. Bali Shag comes as loose tobacco with a pack of 50 papers attached, so you roll your own. There are less to no additives, and they do not use re-constituted tobacco, but the tar intake was doubled due to not having a filter and how dark and rich the tobacco is.
weed is 100% better than cigarettes if vaporized, its still better than cigarettes if you just smoke it streight up, but smoking anyting in general is bad for your lungs
Oh, I agree fully, and if pot cost as little as tobacco does, I would smoke it all day, but it’s too expensive. Vaporization is nice, but the simple act of smoking is sooooo pleasurable. And btw, you might want to simmer down the weed comments there, the party is watching.
The conservative party is watching! 
It’s interesting, because they say that 90% of all schizophrenics are addicted to ciggarettes. I am in the minority, but I can`t say that I have never been tempted to take it up. The hookah actually sounds quite nice, though. Smoking just looks so damned sophisticated, hahaha 
It does. 
But it’s just its poker face. What’s really real about smoking is that it’s buying your death in little pieces.
And it pollutes the environment.
And you could really be doing something actually useful with the money it takes.
And smokers tend to eventually start smelling real bad.
I seriously cant get why people start smoking
And what is popular here in Norway atm, snuff ! Thats REALLY icky
Isn’t that snorted tobacco?