Originally Posted by Rapp's yellow CF
Not to pick at you, I just don't get it? Why would you want to inhale smoke into your lungs? Tobacco makes no sense. It burns and hurts. Smoking reduces your ability to do demanding things, as in you lose function in the lung. I am not promoting smoking other things. That said it could be considered an exchange, health for a temporary effect on the day. A whole other issue is the smell. My daughter is running with a crowd doing this, she smells like an ash tray, everything she owns stinks of ash tray, when they walk into the house the rooms they are in stink. Sorry to pick, you likely know my answer, no I don't smoke hookah.
Rapp,
Hookah is somewhat different than smoking cigarettes. The group I did it with was with a couple of business guys from USC/ISI during a supercomputing conference. Most of the people I saw in the hookah lounge were well-to-do looking folks, mostly young socal hipsters rolling on the dot-com gravy train.
It sounds like you are really concerned about your daughter's smoking, however, which is an altogether different issue. It also sounds like you are concerned about the social group that your daughter is associating with and that is a HUGE issue. Whether we like it or not teenagers have a strong desire to look for guidance outside of the home. I hope that someone that your daughter respects and listens to can encourage her to be a leader and not a follower!!