Laaroussi

It's been three weeks now since I've given up and so far so good.

My problem now is that a friend of mine recently returned from Syria and bought me as a present one of these hookah pipes (hubbly-bubbly, I call it but I think it's real name is Argiley - or something like that!)

What I wondered was, is this tabacco addictive? It's only fruit flavoured. Can it still cause as much damage to your health: lungs, chest, cancer etc, etc.?
It doesn't seem to smell and obviously you can't carry a bloody great pipe around with you so I've only done it in the evenings to relax me before I go to bed.

Is this a step backwards in the road to quitting, I ask myself?