Shisha pipe

[Wereanormalfamily]

Help! ds, nearly15, locked his bedroom door rather obviously after furtive behaviour. Checked later and found stuff belonging to shush a pipe smoking, including charcoal wrapped in tin foil, the pipe etc... Read up it is more dangerous than cigarettes. Does this in his bedroom with a couple of friends from school Tuesday afternoons when I'm at work. Found suspicious ash in toilet etc. he always gives me BS excuses on stuff I find. He'll be home soon, what should I say?

[someoftheabove]

Talktofrank.com includes it under tobacco, but my DS (14) smoked some with his friends in the garden and then just went off the idea. DH and I looked it up online and apparently it's not smoke, it's water vapour. Our shisha pipe is now gathering dust in the garage. Can you explain that you're worried because you don't know much about it and wouldn't want him to develop an expensive tobacco habit, so could he research it with you? Tbh, I'd be more concerned about the fire risk.

[someoftheabove]

Ok, just looked on Wikipedia and it does depend on what you put in it. DS didn't have tobacco in his. But if you do use tobacco, it's still less dangerous than cigarettes because the tobacco isn't burned directly, but prolonged use can lead to the same diseases as with tobacco use.

[Wereanormalfamily]

Thanx v much. Also hope that newness will fade. Fire risk is definitely a great concern, as I've just read, and carbon monoxide poisoning, apparently due to burning charcoal. Nearly wished he'd try ciggies instead!?!

[specialsubject]

it's something you do because you think it makes you look cool - most get bored with it very rapidly. It is as bad as cigarettes health wise, and of course someone is selling him tobacco which is illegal as he is a child.

find a space for him to use it where the smell won't bother you, and where you can make sure he doesn't burn the house down. He's not very smart as yet if he doesn't realise that ash floats, so you can't really trust him to put the fire out.

hopefully you knowing about it and not being bothered will mean it isn't worth doing.

[someoftheabove]

Agree, specialsubject, though isn't everything 14 -year-old boys do aimed at making themselves look cool? ;)