if you guys think that smoking shisha is tamer than smoking cigs, you're wrong.
"the public think the toxic substances inhaled in the smooke are filtered by water, but there are no filter materials in the market that make any tobacco product less harmful, and shisha smokers inhale the same chemicals found in cigarettes." (Ms. Choo Lin from the Health Promotion Board, manager of the National Smoking Control Programme)
among the many diseases linked with shisha smoking: oral cancer, oesophageal and gastric cancers, lung cancer, decreased lung function and low infant birth weight.
(The Straits Times [MindYourBody] January 12, 2005)
just so you know.