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The use of tobacco is centuries old. It is smoked, eaten, chewed and sniffed. We are obviously talking about drug use here, and addiction. One way it is smoked is with a device called a hookah. Smoking tobacco in a hookah is a practice that dates back to the early 16th century in the Middle East
The waterpipe is not, as many still choose to believe, a pleasant pastime with health effects akin to smoking just a few cigarettes a day. It is hundreds of times worse.
Some of the latest research reveals that the inhaled smoke from a one-hour waterpipe session contains as much tar as up to 600 cigarettes, depending on the brand, and as much carbon monoxide as about 150 cigarettes.
Based on these figures, there is no question that shisha is dangerous to one’s health. So why are more and more young people taking up the habit?.
“Even if we accept that at face value, history shows that negative elements of culture need to be confronted and myths about them need to be dispelled, such as the myth about the benign nature of waterpipes compared to cigarettes.”
While the dangers of shisha have been discussed for some time, in the past five years experts have begun calling it an epidemic that needs urgent and affirmative attention.
The tobacco used in hookahs is different than that associated with cigarettes, or, indeed, any other form of smoking. It is, traditionally, a damp blend--called tobamel or maassel--of fresh tobacco leaves with molasses or honey and semi-dried fruit or fruit pulp. Some smokers would add pomegranate juice or perhaps rose oil to the water, which added flavor to the smoke. Later, hookah tobacco was also mixed with fruit extracts, and in the 1980s tobacconists began experimenting with various flavors, so that now a virtual smorgasbord of highly aromatic hookah tobacco is widely available.
The use of tobacco is centuries old. It is smoked, eaten, chewed and sniffed. We are obviously talking about drug use here, and addiction. One way it is smoked is with a device called a hookah. Smoking tobacco in a hookah is a practice that dates back to the early 16th century in the Middle East
The waterpipe is not, as many still choose to believe, a pleasant pastime with health effects akin to smoking just a few cigarettes a day. It is hundreds of times worse.
Some of the latest research reveals that the inhaled smoke from a one-hour waterpipe session contains as much tar as up to 600 cigarettes, depending on the brand, and as much carbon monoxide as about 150 cigarettes.
Based on these figures, there is no question that shisha is dangerous to one’s health. So why are more and more young people taking up the habit?.
“Even if we accept that at face value, history shows that negative elements of culture need to be confronted and myths about them need to be dispelled, such as the myth about the benign nature of waterpipes compared to cigarettes.”
While the dangers of shisha have been discussed for some time, in the past five years experts have begun calling it an epidemic that needs urgent and affirmative attention.
The tobacco used in hookahs is different than that associated with cigarettes, or, indeed, any other form of smoking. It is, traditionally, a damp blend--called tobamel or maassel--of fresh tobacco leaves with molasses or honey and semi-dried fruit or fruit pulp. Some smokers would add pomegranate juice or perhaps rose oil to the water, which added flavor to the smoke. Later, hookah tobacco was also mixed with fruit extracts, and in the 1980s tobacconists began experimenting with various flavors, so that now a virtual smorgasbord of highly aromatic hookah tobacco is widely available.
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