Smoking hookah is more harmful than cigarette smoking Experts compared the harm that a person's body receives from smoking cigarettes and hookah. As it turned out, smoking a hookah is several times more harmful than smoking cigarettes.

An international team of specialists with the participation of Russian scientists from the Research Center conducted a comparative analysis of the harm from cigarettes and hookah. The researchers drew attention to the presence in the hookah smoking mixtures of glycerin, because of which the characteristic smoke. At high temperatures, glycerol decomposes and from it dangerous chemical compounds are formed for human health.

In addition to toxic compounds formed after the breakdown of glycerin, the hookah smoker is forced to inhale carbon monoxide - the product of burning the most tobacco mixture and coal.

Carbon monoxide can cause poisoning in humans even in small doses, manifested in headache, dizziness. In large doses, the carbon monoxide entering the body leads to death.

The amount of exhaled carbon monoxide from a cigarette smoker is 10 times higher than that of a non-smoker. The amount of exhaled carbon monoxide gas of hookah smokers is several times greater than the same number of cigarette smokers. In addition, because of the hookah in the human body, hypoxia can form, which increases the risk of an accident by 33%. ua.

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