what are the dangers of smoking through a foil pipe? i used to do this as a kid and now i am wondering if i hurt my body doing it....of course i didnt actually smoke the aluminum but i got a little close.....just wondering if anyone had info
I have no facts for you, but I've been told numorous times that smoking from alluminum pipes is somewhat harmful to the lungs.
this has been gone over numerous times...ppl will debate that there are no proven causes but imo, smoking out of aluminum is fucking BADDD stuff i cant remeber the exact numbers, but in a thread i did some research, and i came up with the tempature of which aluminum releases molecules [not to mention other chemicals which are mixed in with it] is MUCH lower than the tempature at which a lighter heats it up to, so u are sucking in more than smoke
yeh but just note that when you use it a few times, it will build up resin layer that gets hard and is like a shell over the aluminium
some reports link aluminum pipes to alzheimer's. it's not a really stable argument, but there are a few people that are trying to prove it. there's a 50% chance it does, at least.
Smoking out of aluminum is very hard on your lungs, since storebought aluminum usually is coated with a chemical (cant remember what its called, we had to do a report on this in science last year), for sterility and some shining thing... although this doesnt come of by rubbing on it, or in liquid, but it does when applied to heat... and all that shit is going into you... on top of that, it alters your high. Hope this helps.. =)
In every case of alzheimers there is aluminum in the brain. In fact the only real physical test for alzheimers is to wait for the subject to die, then perform an autopsy checking for aluminum build up. Some people will be willing to argue that the aluminum is the cause (etiology) of the disease, while others say that it is only symptomatic. Bottom line is that smoking anything is bad for you, but aluminum, and any other metals, make matters worse. I wouldn't worry too much if i were you though, but it is a good idea to err on the safe side and smoke out of either glass or wood. I prefer wood pipes over anything else actually. They tend not to over-heat, aren't fragile, and once they get a layer of resin ingrained in the bowl the smoke is smoother than any glass pipe i've run across.
i completely agree with you......i love wood pipes but the problem is, is that my wood pipe has an enormous bowl(it is a tobacco pipe from 1897) but whenever you have an enormous bowl you get a real smooth and enormous hit.....is there anyways to raise the bottom so i can use smaller bowls....i tried using foil at the bottom(flame doesnt touch the foil) to make it rise up a little and it worked ok but are there any other ways?
try making something similair to this... http://www.everyonedoesit.com/onlin...uze.cfm?iProductID=638&iProductCategoryID=153 but with 4 tabs that u bend up over the edge of the bowl. i don't know how you'd make this though, maybe out of some really thin sheet metal or something.
