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Can damage from smoking water-filtered shisha be related quantitatively to smoking other tobacco products, such as cigarettes?

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Dr. Ahmad M Hadiedanswered

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Let me explain: Just like regular tobacco, shisha contains nicotine. In fact, in a 60-minute hookah session, smokers are exposed to 100 to 200 times the volume of smoke inhaled from a single cigarette. If you to know more visit this site. http://www.health.umd.edu/sites/default/files/hookah%20brochure-%20final_0.pdf.

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