A number of months ago, I read an article on IsraelNationalNews that Rabbi Binyamin Finkel, a lecturer at the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem, told students that the Torah admonition to take care of one's health includes smoking, which clearly damages one's health.
Today, I found an article on the BBC website entitled "Shisha 'as harmful as cigarettes'."
"Smoking a shisha pipe is as bad for people as smoking tobacco, the Department of Health and the Tobacco Control Collaborating Centre has found.
People who smoke shisha, or herbal tobacco, can suffer from high carbon monoxide levels, its research revealed.
It found one session of smoking shisha resulted in carbon monoxide levels at least four to five times higher than the amount produced by one cigarette.
High levels of carbon monoxide can lead to brain damage and unconsciousness.
Shisha is a water-pipe, popular in many Arab countries, in which fruit-scented tobacco is burnt using coal, passed through an ornate water vessel and inhaled through a hose."
Click here to read full article. And, by all means, pass the article on to those people who frequent "hookah bars" or those yeshiva students who think this activity is a far less harmful alternative to smoking.
venishmartem lenafshotechem - and you shall protect your lives
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