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flare7571728 asked in PetsBirds · 1 decade ago

is it ok to smoke hookah with a bird in the same room?

now I know the answer is probably no, and I know how dangerous it is for cigarette smoke, and I know they pass air through their lungs twice and absorb anything in it extremely efficiently. I also know about coal mine canaries. Please dont feed me facts and figures. I want to know if anyone has a pet bird and has done this, my logic behind thinking it might be ok is the fact that hookah smoke is much less dense and chemical ridden than cigarette smoke.

either way, I'm still strongly leaning towards no

Update:

he's in a completely different area of the house from the hookah, but I feel bad when he squaks for me and I'm not able to bring him out

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  • 1 decade ago
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    No, it is not okay to smoke around your bird, for the reasons you have already stated. The risks are high, which include respiratory problems and death. Birds are incredibly sensitive creatures and cannot handle the stress of such air pollutants. My ex-best friend's bird died within two weeks of being adopted by her family because her entire family smoked indoors.

    Please be a responsible pet owner.

    Source(s): I am a certified Animal Care technician.
  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Actually the coal on top just heats up what you are smoking it's not what it being smoked. What you are smoking it most likely this stuff i can't remmber the name of but it is a tabacco product thought not very strong. It has very little tabacco actually in it and it therefor has less nicoteen. Also if you get a buzz from smoking it it's not from the nicoteen. If you smoke a lot of it the affects can be similar to that of a light ciggarette smoker. It is highly filtered thought so i wouldn't really worry abotu smoking it unless you are doinging it very frequently.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Well, it seems to me that you know the answer so I'm assuming that your actual intent here is to wow us w the revelation of you and the hookah---okay, we're all very impressed. Happy now?

    Dense smoke, less dense smoke? Are you kidding? Birds have tiny lungs, any smoke is harmful but won't kill them fast. Just like in humans, the bird's health will simply deteriorate over time and it will live a shorter life that is also less healthy.

    Normally when people breath in smoke they are taken to the hospital for treatment of smoke inhalation. Even rescue squads now carry special oxygen devices for animals. Tobacco smokers, in the beginning of their hobby of smoking, have simply managed to get their brain to over-ride the feeling that inhaling smoke is painful. Simple.

    Source(s): common sense
  • Goldy
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Smoke of any description no matter how little and how dense is dangerous to birds.

    As an example more birds die through smoke inhalation of forest or any wildfire than,what actually die with the fire itself.as they can be overcome long before the actual fire reaches them

    Source(s): Ex Wildlife Warden
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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    If you cared for the bird, move it. If you don't care for the bird, leave it. I highly suggest the first option.

  • 1 decade ago

    This is the funniest question ever.

    I guess that's how you make a bird HIGH without using its wings. LOL

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