Sorry to ruin everyone's festive Ramadan mood, but the verdict is out. A recent study found that smoking Shisha is as harmful (if not more) as cigarettes.
"We found one session of smoking shisha - that's 10 milligrams (of fruit tobacco) for 30 minutes - gave carbon monoxide levels that were at the lowest four and five times higher than having a cigarette," wrote the BBC. So proceed at your own risk and stop pretending (yes, even if you don't inhale) that you don't know that there are health risks, including transmitting infectious diseases like TB, herpes and perhaps even the swine flu.