How harmful is the hookah? Is it not called safe?

Hookah began to appear in all the menus of pizzerias, cafes and restaurants. Such a mysterious word and pulls to try so praised by the eastern traditions of "meal", especially in the environment of a pleasant company. And after trying, we feel the fortress, taste, aroma and light euphoric dizziness. Is it at this moment you will begin to wonder how harmful the hookah is?

Next time we prefer to try something new: a hookah on wine, on fruit, with aromatic herbs. Then give it as a gift to a friend, and that's the same flaunts on our shelf. Stop, but what about all the same health? Here it is worth considering how much harm from the hookah we can inflict on our body, often getting it off the shelf.

If it's all about smoking a long time ago and everyone knows what harm this harmful habit does to the body, thanks for that to the doctors and the propaganda of a healthy lifestyle, then about the hookah, many still doubt: a hookah is harmful or not? And some even assure that it is safe.

Is it so? The hookah structure, special tobacco - is this enough to call its smoking safe? No! Rather, it is worth asking - how harmful is the hookah.

This way of smoking originated in the eastern countries and came to us recently. It is completely different than smoking ordinary tobacco (cigarettes, cigarettes, tubes). A jug with a liquid (water, milk and others) is an obstacle in the way of smoke to our lungs. The filter in its upper part clears smoke from nicotine, harmful substances (up to 40% of them becomes less). Because of the liquid, it turns out to be wet, with water vapor, useful for colds, including chronic ones. And various additives give smoke a pleasant taste. And the tobacco used in the hookah differs from the usual way of preparation (cleaning, washing, drying).

Smoking is harmful in itself, but how bad is a hookah? A special way of smoking can reduce the effect of smoke on the lungs of a smoker, but does not provide cleansing from all harmful substances that are contained in the smoke (tar, carcinogens, carbon monoxide, nicotine). The content in the inhaled vapor mixture is 90% - not every lung will survive. But…

Smoking hookah can get rid of the addiction - cigarettes. Hookah also eliminates the environment of the smoker from harmful harm from passive smoking (they do not have to inhale the smoke with numerous dangerous substances, by-products).

There is also an opposite point of view, confirmed by studies of scientists. Using a device that simulates the process of smoking a hookah by a person, they managed to measure the harm and compare it with those from smoking cigarettes. It turned out that when smoking 7 grams (10 minutes) in the lungs, the same amount of harmful substances from the smoke settles, as well as when smoking 5 cigarettes (at one time!). With these researchers, doctors agreed, discovering that smoking a hookah causes a stronger harmful effect. Because of this and a different ratio: 10 minutes of hookah = 5 cigarettes. Is not it a lot for one time? Such an attack of harmful substances on your lungs will immediately cause more harm than cigarettes smoked during the day. It was also found out that in the smoke of the hookah contain other harmful substances, nicotine substitutes nicotine (kotonin, causing a similar dependence).

So, we can conclude that in the eastern way of smoking there are pluses, but there is harm, which - remains to be determined by scientists. While you can answer our question, how harmful is the hookah, so: so much that it is worth switching from cigarettes to hookah smoking. But everyone must decide for themselves that it will be better for him, to correlate the harm (we smoke less often and we get satisfaction from the process more than from a pack of cigarettes a day), and it is better not to smoke tobacco in any way!