Jump to full article: The Peninsula (qa), 2006-10-10
Intro: Those who partake of the seesha thinking it is a safer option to cigarettes or other tobacco products, are simply deluding themselves.
Dr Mohammad Ghaith Al Kuwari, a specialist in Social Medicine at Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), told an Arabic daily that these days, even women have hopped onto the sheesha bandwagon.
"People are justifying smoking the sheesha on the grounds it is supposedly less harmful than other forms of tobacco. They claim it is a safe alternative," he said. Non-smokers are also being roped into taking up the sheesha, he said, as they are led to believe that it helps in socialising. . . .
Mohammad Ghaith stated that studies have shown that a bowl of seesha is the equivalent of having 20 cigarettes a day.
With people sitting around and enjoying bowl after bowl, they can end up consuming the equivalent of two to three packs of cigaretess a day.
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