Word: hookahs
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Miller, the editor in chief of the Harvard Mental Health Letter, which discusses the hookah findings in its March issue, said he is concerned about students who think hookah smoke is less harmful than cigarette or marijuana smoke...
...nature of hookah smoking is that you inhale deeply and hold on to tremendous amounts of smoke—not like taking a little puff on a cigarette, which is dangerous enough,” he said...
...wouldn’t say it’s more addictive,” Miller said of hookah versus cigarettes. “But the perception somehow is that it’s safe,” he added. “People think it’s safe, but it?...
Todd G. Steinbach, sales clerk at Leavitt & Peirce Tobacco, a smoke shop in Harvard Square, cited the taste of hookah as a likely explanation for the perceived harmlessness of hookah smoking...
...tobacco that goes into hookah is a different blend, so it is not seen as damaging,” he said...