Smoking hookah: harmful or useful?

In our country in recent years, smoking hookah has become very popular, mainly among young people, which is understandable in principle. The problem is that most people think that this is absolutely safe entertainment. In fact, everything is quite different. Based on the research of scientists conducted during the last five years, there are a number of convincing data on hookah smoking.

Long-term smoking hookah leads to inhaling a significantly larger volume of smoke compared to the usual cigarette smoking. When smoking a cigarette a person for 5-7 minutes.makes on the average 8-12 puffs and at the same time breathes in itself 0.5-0.6 l.smoke, then for a normal hookah smoking session, on average, a person does 50-100 puffs, any of which contains approximately 0.15-1.0 liters.smoke. That is why, for one hour of smoking a hookah, a person can use the amount of smoke equal to the amount of smoke from a pack of cigarettes, or even more.

In addition to all this in tobacco shisha can not accurately measure the amount of nicotine because of the difference in packaging. The conducted studies of tobacco designed to prove that it usually has much more nicotine, lead, harmful tar and carbon monoxide than in tobacco from cigarettes. In particular, in smoke from the hookah concentration of carbon monoxide is two to three times higher than in smoke from cigarettes. At the same time, tobacco that smokes through a hookah is much thicker and moist, which contains molasses and various flavors. In general, wet smoke with dangerous elements and toxins into the lungs penetrates deeper and causes serious damage to health, moreover, it contributes to the disruption of the functions performed by the lungs and the loss of their elasticity.

In all types of tobacco is a nerve poison - nicotine , it is the one that can cause addiction, but in addition it is still an important regulator of the number of tobacco consumption. Therefore, the smoker will tighten the smoke until he can get enough of his nicotine to meet the habitual need of the organism in dependence, but not to such an extent that dizziness arises. This fact can fully explain the time duration of smoking hookah, nicotine hunger of the body is satisfied for 20 - 30 minutes of smoking.

It is known that hookah smoke along with the smoke of ordinary cigarettes provokes cancer of the larynx, lungs and other oncological diseases, various pulmonary and cardiac diseases. In addition, in families where both husband and wife indulge in hookah, there is a high probability of a baby with a small weight. In addition, smoking hookah can lead to even infertility. Also, scientists have proven that most people who smoke hookah eventually smoke cigarettes, and in rare cases can start taking psychotropic substances. It should be emphasized that the organism of the hookah smoker is filled with the concentration of lead, arsenic, nicotine, cotinine and chromium higher than those who smoke ordinary cigarettes. Moreover, for hookah smoking, in most cases, foil is used, which releases extremely harmful carcinogenic aluminum vapor when heated by charcoal.

Even if the hookah water filter absorbs a certain part of the nicotine, the person who smokes a hookah will still get the same nicotine addiction as when smoking an ordinary cigarette. Only the nicotine harmfulness of smoking hookah is not limited, because to inhaling tobacco smoke in such a large amount at the same time in the body fall into the body of heavy metals, carbon monoxide, carcinogenic chemical elements in an amount that causes great harm to the body. Of course, both traders and hookah manufacturers who advertise supposedly safe smoking, selling a hookah, which will be equipped with a cigarette holder filled with cotton or with a filter made up of activated carbon, also know about all this, just as the added plastic carbon filters can offer as a protective tool andchemicals for the formation of smaller bubbles. But all this will not help. The attracted amount of smoke, of course, varies depending on the models of hookahs or the way of smoking, but not one of the existing types of hookah as a hookah smoking device will not be safe for health, causing a risk of cardiovascular diseases, cancers and chronic lung diseases.

Therefore, summing up, it is worth noting the main thing that should be considered by every person smoking a hookah:

Smoking hookah is harmful!

• - a hookah is not an inoffensive alternative to cigarettes;for the average hourly smoking procedure of hookah in man gets about 50-100 times more volume of smoke compared to a normal cigarette;
  
  
  
• - even in water-polluted hookah smoke, contains a huge amount of toxic substances, salts of heavy metals, carbon monoxide, which cause various oncological diseases, chronic bronchitis and emphysema;
  
  
• - neither water, nor other additional means of protection can not provide you harmlessness of smoking a hookah and will not help to avoid dependence on nicotine;
  
  
• - the joint use of a hookah mouthpiece by a large number of smokers contains the danger of infection with any serious infectious disease, even tuberculosis and liver inflammation;
  
  
• - stay in the company of people smoking hookah is also a passive smoking, it has a bad effect on the health of a non-smoker and shows an action that is equivalent to being in a smoke-smoked cigarette. At the same time, the combustion products of a charcoal element, charcoal with impurities of various chemical substances, are used as a fuel element.