Many people think that smoking a hookah and cigarettes should not be put on the same line - they say, in the case of a hookah, tobacco is better, and there are no many chemicals - plus you will not smoke a hookah as often as cigarettes.

Hookah supporters find dozens of excuses for their addiction, very often without realizing that the harm from this habit, as a rule, comes out even more than from smoking cigarettes.. The main myth about hookah is that passing through water / juice / milk, the smoke is cleared of harmful substances.. This statement has nothing to do with the truth.. Carbon monoxide, heavy metals and resins remain in the smoke and do not disappear - the only difference is that the smoke is enriched with glycerin, which makes it a little sweeter, but this does not affect the degree of harm. Some hookahs use cotton filters or a special plastic mesh designed to reduce harm, but according to a World Health Organization report, such products do nothing to reduce the relative harm of tobacco smoke..

Here's another interesting fact - 84% of people who smoke hookahs believe that at one time they get a dose of tar and smoke, like after smoking 10 cigarettes. Scientists from the University of Florida decided to calculate how true this really is.. The average hookah smoking time is 20 minutes, and it can sometimes reach up to an hour. During this time, a person makes, respectively, from 50 to 200 puffs..

However, smoking one cigarette is equivalent to 8-12 puffs.. Accordingly, a person receives the amount of smoke equivalent to 100-200 cigarettes.. If this smoke contained the same amount of nicotine and a number of chemicals found in cigarettes, then this dose would be lethal.. At the same time, nicotine and these chemical elements are not the main cause of the harm of smoking, and on the contrary, they are those few pluses - they calm the nervous system, acting on it as a soft drug..

The main harm of smoking cigarettes comes from carbon monoxide, tar and carcinogens released at the same time, and according to these indicators, hookah smoke is only slightly behind cigarettes.. By the way, the same glycerin that makes the hookah taste softer actually causes even more harm to your body, because you automatically inhale the smoke deeper and the resin settles on a larger area of \u200b\u200b\\u200b\\u200byour lungs..

Vladislav Vorotnikov.

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