There has been many inventions over the years. Technology is bringing new things our way every single day to be frank, I love the development, we are growing, and we are advancing. A lot of things that seem to be impossible or difficult during the era of our ancestors are now possible and not just possible but easy as well.
But with all these good, we all know that not all inventions are for good, what I mean is some of those inventions instead of taking us forward end up either destroying our lives or causing harm to them.
One of those inventions for me is hookah popularly known as shisha, literally, there is nothing wrong with the invention, it looks harmless before the eyes and according to those who use it, they say it has a very nice flavor, it's safe, it's not like cigarettes or weed and the likes.
I can remember vividly when youths in my place started using, it, they said a lot of good things about shisha, some even said it wasn't high and it's not bad. Gradually, I heard that weed can also be used and Subsequently people are now using AZ ( Arizona). They tell you it's just shisha and as soon as they have a taste you see them misbehaving and doing all manner of things.
I know some young men and women who previously didn't use to smoke but gradually as shisha came, they are now expert smokers. There was a video I saw of some ladies smoking shisha, and all of them got high I am sure it's weed that was mixed in there, you need to see how they were misbehaving. I know that weed Is legal in some countries but in Nigeria, it is not. Smoking might be a legal thing in other countries but in mine, it is not, most parents frown at it badly.
It makes young people misbehave after indulging in the act and no parent would love to see their children misbehaving, It brings a bad name to the family. Today when you go to a bar or hotel you see young individuals publicly using shisha without shame, I don't know if it's only me but that's how the sight makes me feel. Are these our potential fathers, mothers, and future leaders? Imagine you are already a parent and your children are there, are you will be happy with the child seeing you in that act? The annoying part for me is how it is publicly done without any feeling of remorse. What are we promoting with that?
Apart from the fact that it is promoting and increasing smoking among young people, I am also wondering how safe it is with regard to our health. At least if we say "Who gives a damn about what the society thinks," how about our health?
Over the years the Ministry of Health has been preaching about smoking, telling us that smokers are liable to die young, they have been looking for a way to convince them to stop, and here comes shisha, a modern way to promote the act. It looks innocent, you don't need to hold a wrapped weed or cigarettes anyone, it's in the container, and all you have to do is drag it through the mouthpiece.
I noticed shisha's mouthpiece is shared during smoking, now that there are a lot of diseases, is not risky to share the pipe with someone you barely know about their state of health? They may look sound outside but do you know what's going on, on the inside? Don't feel as if it's because I am not smoking that I am saying all this, I am just trying to be realistic.
Smoking is smoking, it all has the ability to damage our lungs, how many healthy individuals who are supposed to take society forward died of cancer of the lungs and tuberculosis as a result of smoking? All inventions related to smoking are threats to man kind. I may not really know the pleasure and advantages attached to them but honestly speaking all the people that I know to be smokers have nothing to show for it.
