Do you smoke shisha, despite the risk of contracting infection or disease?

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I see a lot of people smoking shisha in my city, I ahve even tried it myself a few times, but little did I know that whilst I smoked it, I could contract an infection or disease - even air-borne tuberculosis. To me, smoking a pipe which possibly hundreds of other people have smoked before you, and having not been witness to the proper cleaning and decontamination of the pipe after use, is pretty offputting, not to mention distasteful. Despite this, people still do it. Yes it might be 'social' or taste better in comparison to normal tobacco, but is it really worth the risk? One might say that you could develop cancer due to smoking yet people still do it...TB and other similar infections are likely to get you way before the cancer does!