Seeing Through the Smoke

Overview

Objectives/Goals My objective was to set put and prove that smoking Hookah is worse for you than smoking cigarettes. Methods/Materials Ten empty juice bottles Package of filtered and non-filtered cigarettes 4 foot pumps Duct tape Hookah Pipe Hookah tobacco Cotton Face Mask Scale that can measure in grams First I designed and built a "human lung" machine to test the different types of smoking tobacco. I tested equal amounts of Hookah tobacco, filtered cigarettes and non-filtered cigarettes. I ran a control lung first. Than three trials of non-filtered, three trials of filtered cigarettes and finally three trials of Hookah. I collected all my data then analized it, then formed my conclusion. Results After weighing all the bottles, I proved that smoking Hookah is worse for you than smoking cigarettes. Even thought the bottles of cigarette smoke appear to be dirtier, the hookah bottles had more residue trapped inside them so they weighed more. Conclusions/Discussion Originally an Iranian physician created the Hookah as a healthier alternative to smoking. He thought that people could smoke it and because the smoke passes through water it would be purified. Smoking anything is very harmful to the human body and should not be marketed as one is being better for you than the other. There really is not that vig of a differnce whin it comes to filtered and non-filtered cigarettes. Hookah which was suppose to be a healthier alternative to smoking, turns out to be even worse. Bottom line is smoking is no good for anyone and the environment.

Competition history

• CSEF 2011 Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only) · Entry J2106

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