See title. My bong's bowl is broken, so basically i have a bong and downstem but no bowl. I'm really tempted to just fashion a quick fix one out of tin foil but I've heard mixed things about tin foil. If we use tin foil for cooking and such, shouldn't it be completely safe? Tin can't possible evaporate at the temperature of a Bic can it? I once looked up on Wikipedia that it was some ridiculously high temperature that definitely surpassed the combustion of butane. And I know for a fact that almost all hookahs use tin foil bowls, and plenty of people smoke those daily. So what's the deal? What's good blades? To tin foil or not to tin foil?
I personally wouldnt do it. Just go to a hardware store and pick up some metal pipe, I'm sure you'll find what you need. Though I have heard (from many people) tin foil is safe, contrary to the popular belief that it is dangerous.
When you can buy a glass pipe for $5 bucks, why the hell would anybody smoke out of foil? My guess.... you would only use foil if you're underage. Foil is for kids that can't buy a piece. I can't think it's good for you. I would never smoke out of foil. Cans are out too. the paint on the can is probably worse than the foil. Bottom line, don't do it!
Theres not much to worry about. Unless you scrape it with something that would create aluminum dust, it's harmless. It's an old discounted myth.
I'm not sure just how safe it is to smoke out of tinfoil. I try to avoid it wherever possible. although when fashioning a home made "waterfall" pipe or when we don't have any gauzes, we'll stretch to tinfoil
My cousin smoked out of foil and was attacked by a grizzly bear. Better go with metal. grizzlies are dangerous.
my mother is 49 years old, and a certified public accountant and still uses soda cans and tinfoil she is far from an underage kid that can't buy a piece she has breast cancer
no glass doesnt release vapors or fumes its safer that blunts wood and metal pipes and no one has ever gotten cancer from smokin week but TIN FOIL KILLS
If I have to use tin foil to smoke I'd rather not smoke or use something else. I've probably used tin foil less then 5 times and that was when I was young and with friends. Just save that bud or use something else. Tin foil isn't classy it makes me think I'm smoking crack or meth. I would make a gravity bong or something else so you don't have to use it.
I've been using a tin foil bowl nearly all my smoking career, and I've experienced no problems. Plus, once you break in the bowl and get enough res covering the tinfoil there should be no problems.
TIN foil would be fine, but Aluminium is a different element. Aluminum foil can sublimate at the temperature a lighter's flame burns at and give off aluminum vapors, the charcoal on a hookah doesn't get that hot, so that's not an issue at all, but aluminium ions in the brain have a strong corralation with cases of alzheimers, but nothing that way has been solidly proven, a few weeks of smoking out of foil should be fine