Friday 27 November 2009

Smoking a hookah? Is it safe

Hookah now nobody will be surprised. In any restaurant or a trendy coffee shop in the menu is always a hookah, and indoor hookah room. But now information about the dangers of hookah contradictory and vague: someone claims that he is harmless, someone talks about serious harm.

Indian invention, hookah quickly became popular in the Islamic world, from Southeast Asia and to Africa. In Europe, the hookah noticed at the end of XIX century, when it became the fashion for the entire east. Russia's modern reality is that hookah can be purchased at any souvenir shop. The popularity of hookahs is growing, fans smoke gradually moving into the camp of fans of the mixture for smoking through a waterpipe. Moreover, in the community There is a persistent claim that hookah is not only enjoyable, but also much safer than cigarettes. But is it true?

Hookah is a tube equipped with a long shank and water filter. One part of the hookah - a bowl of water, the second is usually made of metal, just joined it a long flexible hose with a mouthpiece. Above placed ceramic container for tobacco mixture. There are kinds of hookah, equipped with a protective saucer, protective hood, exhaust ball valve to remove excess smoke and tongs for coal. There are water pipes with a pipe designed for smoking alone, and hookahs with multiple handsets - such fun to smoke in the company.

The main thing that you want from your treatment - do not miss the air, ie be fully sealed.

Waterpipe tobacco blend is prepared specially. When the smoke of her burning through the water, poured into a flask of water pipe, it is cooled and moistened. In addition, liquid water pipe works as a filter.

Waterpipe use three types of tobacco and tobacco blends.

The first of them - «tumbak». This common tobacco (Nicotiana Rustica), in its high nicotine content. This tobacco is moistened with water, wring out and put in a bowl hookah.

The second type of hookah tobacco - «mu` essel ». For it is saturated with sweet tobacco, molasses and fruit aromas enriched by adding a mixture of chips of various fruit fruit.

The third type is called «jurak». It is something intermediate between «tumbak» and «mu` essel ».

Is there any harm from a hookah? Certainly, yes. With all that smoking a hookah does not seem something serious, yet the impact on health, it has a significant.

Hour of smoking hookah smoking means 100-200 times more smoke than in a situation where you decide to smoke a cigarette. Thus, the amount of carbon monoxide inhaled while smoking hookah, very tangible. Experts say that 45 minutes of smoking a hookah, you inhale carbon monoxide more than in the use of an entire pack of cigarettes. The mechanism of smoking waterpipes, which involves deep breaths and forced himself smoke, allows him to get into the most secluded corners of the lungs.

Moreover, while smoking hookah large company should be remembered that the mouthpiece needs to be disinfected. Otherwise, get acquainted with other people's infections you provided.

Assess the effects hookah in numbers is difficult. Production of cigarettes strictly standardized, and the "exhaust" hookah depends on many variables. May change the quality of tobacco and its appearance, quality corner, the temperature at which tobacco burns. Likely that hookah smoking lead to shortness of breath and even poisoning. Also do not recommend mixing alcohol and hookah, as the consequences can be quite predictable.

In a statement the World Health Organization says that hookah smokers in higher concentrations of blood carboxyhemoglobin, nicotine, cottonine, arsenic, chromium and lead. Thus, the results of smoking cigarettes and hookah are exactly the same: cancer of the lungs and other organs, disruption of the respiratory system, coronary heart disease, difficulties with childbirth.

Narcologists contend that hookah smoking is no different from smoking cigarettes in terms of dependence. Therefore, people who do not smoke cigarettes, most likely periodic hookah smoking will help create a dependence on tobacco. Likely in the near future they will be expected to either cigarette smoking or medication. After compensation deficit of nicotine in the body with a hookah takes quite a long time: from 20 to 60 minutes.

It is likely that a complete cessation of smoking a hookah in society - this is a utopia. Besides its rare use of substantial harm nevertheless not cause. But, at least, and should adhere to certain rules, which will save health and will give you rest some aesthetics:

Do not place the hookah high. Suppose he is on the floor or low table.

If you have decided to share a hookah with the other, put it only on the floor, and place the mouthpiece on a clean plate.

Use only specially prepared tobacco. It is dark and thick.

Never lights a cigarette from the coals in the hookah.

Smoking hookah - private matter. Delayed or not - then everyone decides for himself. Do not interfere in someone else's way of recreation, do not criticize the habits of others.

It is not necessary as the liquid poured in a hookah alcohol. The water in hookahs - is a filter, and sometimes the flavor, if instead of water you pour, for example, karkade.

Before smoking hookah need to eat. It is unacceptable to smoke hookah on an empty stomach, slowly.

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