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Department has responded to 413 incidents tied to hookah <br />parlors. The Anaheim Police Department reported to its City <br />Council that this number does not include an additional 86 <br />police calls on hookah parlors that were made without a <br />request to a Police response (for a total of 499 police calls <br />on hookah parlors over 2 1 /2 years). <br />3. This same Police Department Report and news article <br />further states that illegal weapons and underage drinking <br />were found by an Anaheim Police Department vice operation <br />directed at hookah parlors. <br />4. This Police Department Report and news article further <br />stated that some hookah parlors in Anaheim had been the <br />target of fire bombs and arson. <br />5. While there is a widespread belief that smoking from a <br />hookah pipe is safer than other types of tobacco smoking, <br />the World Health Organization ("WHO") reported in 2005 that <br />"waterpipe smokers and second-hand smokers [are] at risk <br />for the same kinds of diseases as are caused by cigarette <br />smoking, including cancer, heart disease, respiratory <br />disease, and adverse effects during pregnancy." <br />6. The WHO investigatory panel also found that a "typical 1- <br />hour long waterpipe smoking session involves inhaling 100- <br />200 times the volume of smoke inhaled with a single <br />cigarette," and that the smoke, even after passing through <br />water, "contains high levels of toxic compounds, including <br />high levels of carbon monoxide, metals and cancer-causing <br />chemicals." <br />7. The WHO investigatory panel also found that sharing a <br />hookah's mouthpiece poses a serious risk of transmission of <br />communicable diseases. <br />8. The WHO investigatory panel found that the common <br />practice of sweetening and flavoring hookah tobacco, giving <br />it a sweet taste and smell, may account for the increase of <br />its use among young people who otherwise avoid smoking. <br />9. The smoking of tobacco in a hookah "is frightening because <br />it is a gateway toward a lifetime use of tobacco, including <br />cigarettes," according to Dr. Christopher Loffredo, Ph.D., <br />Director of the Cancer Genetics and Epidemiology program <br />at Georgetown University Medical Center, who has studied <br />Ordinance No. NS-XXX <br />Page 2 of 4 <br />11 B-2 <br />