Archive for February, 2010

Here's the thing about hookah

Friday, February 12th, 2010

Parents! File this one under “if it’s sounds too good to be true, it probably is”.

The popularity of hookah, a water pipe used to smoke tobacco sweetened with molasses (called sisha) has surged with college and high school students as the safe alternative to smoking cigarettes.

Many children have convinced their parents that hookah is safe because the water pipe collects “harmful particles” (just look at the dirty water). Shisha is sweet and comes …

About Joanna Jullien

Joanna Jullien

Joanna (jullien@surewest.net) and her husband have raised two sons in Roseville, CA. She has a degree from U.C. Berkeley in Social Anthropology (corporate culture). Her honors thesis was awarded the Kroeber Prize and funding from National Science Foundation grant. Joanna writes to help parents with the modern-day leadership challenges of raising children. She is a contributing writer for The Granite Bay View, the Press Tribune, the Sacramento Examiner, and editor of Banana Moments.

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