Halooka E-Hookah, You Barefaced Liar ! Keyfa Haluka ?(*) Unashamedly Singing Prohibitionist Tunes ?
(*) “How are you” (in Arabic) ?
“TripleHalo Ltd has launched the Halooka™, The World’s first electronic Shisha in February 2010. The Halooka™ is an innovative healthier redefinition of the traditional shisha (sometimes knows as a hookah or water pipe). The Halooka™ uses an electronic atomisation process and mechanism to produce water based vapour as opposed to harmful ‘burn’ smoke associated with the traditional shisha [cont…]”.
A communiqué that begins with a lie (of course, this is not the first Electronic hookah!) immediately followed by another lie (the regular shisha would produce “harmful ‘burn’ smoke”!). Too much, this is too much !
This isn't all. Listen to other claims:
“[…] Zair Al-Beyerty, inventor and TripleHalo Ltd CEO, said “We fully support the principle of a ban on smoking and harm reduction […]”
Observatory: ????
“Research on the traditional shisha has shown that it can be significantly more harmful than a regular cigarette. Findings show the traditional shisha not only retains all the carcinogens of cigarette’s ‘burn’ smoke but also adds higher levels of carbon monoxide and a separate set of carcinogens from the use of burning coals to keep the nicotine flowing”.
Yeah, man, 1 hookah is equivalent to 200 to 900 cigarettes. We already know this song…
The last straw ! : “The cartridge components consist of natural ingredients which include:
Nicotine: Natural extract from the tobacco plant. (Pure nicotine is far less harmful when not burnt and delivered through the 100+ chemicals associated with burning as in the traditional Shisha and cigarettes)”
“While mindful of and supporting the smoking ban as well as the need for a clear harm reduction policy on smoking in general [...]”.
Observatory: Why do you need to hop on the prohibitionists bandwagon, sing their tunes and hunt with them ?
Did’nt you realize you parrot, that :
-E-cigarettes are certainly interesting devices because many cigarette smokers are hooked and compelled to inhale a highly concentrated smoke many times a day. Of course, given the chemical composition of that smoke, this is not good for health if repeated too often. This is why the carbon-heated glycerol Eclipse cigarette, imitating the hookah, has, one decade ago, represented a great step forward. Expectedly, antismoking researchers made everything they could to almost banish it. > Now, if hookahs are not that addictive, in which realm does the benefit of a E-Hookah lie?
-Vaporizing nicotine and flavours is what a regular hookah does, with no chip or batteries…
-Then, why the heck does a E-hookah use water if there is no crap to filter out ? Just for the gurgling sound ? Oh come on !
-“Harm reduction”, said you ? Didn’t you read the news that regular “Hookah is the pre-Colombian harm reduction method of smoking whose continuous growing popularity across the world, for one decade now, is also a backlash effect of the vehement anti-cigarette campaigns of the past two decades” ?
Finally, is this exotic knick-knack, this expensive toy, powered by huge batteries, environment-friendly ? Regular hookahs, with natural charcoal and natural tobacco, are…
CONCLUSION
Unless an apology and correction, based on non Haram-Treif Science (*), are published by Triplehalo (the company behind the product), the Observatory will keep saying: avoid these people and their gimmicks !
(*) “Haram” and “Treif” science ? … What’s this ?
RELEVANT READINGS
The Observatory on Hookah or Health is not principled against E-smoking. It only demands scientific honesty and integrity, as reflected in the below links:
The Observatory on Hookah or Health is not principled against E-smoking. It only demands scientific honesty and integrity, as reflected in the below links:
E-Letter on E-Hookah published in the E-British Medical Journal
A few comments on recent articles on E-cigarettes published by worldwide renowned antismoking researchers (Jack Henningfield, Ghazi Zaatari and Thomas Eissenberg):
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