Shisha smokers inhale 50 litres of smoke over a 45-minute session
Shisha smokers put themselves at greater risk of diseases like bronchitis, emphysema, periodontal disease and lung cancer, an expert on the subject told The Peninsula. Expectant mothers who smoke shisha can also give birth to children with low weight.
“With a water pipe, and as the water cools the smoke and the draw resistance of the pipe is so low, it’s very easy to inhale a lot of smoke — up to 50 litres of smoke over a 45-minute use period”, said Professor Thomas Eissenberg, Director of the Center for the Study of Tobacco Products at Virginia Commonwealth University in US.
He added that compared to around one litre of smoke that is consumed by someone smoking a cigarette over about five minutes. It’s important to know that the water only cools the smoke, it doesn’t filter out toxicants.”
Speaking at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar’s (WCM-Q) Grand Rounds to an audience of physicians, researchers, students and healthcare professionals, Eissenberg pointed out that smoking shisha has experienced huge growth in popularity in the Middle East, the US and Europe in recent years, particularly among young people.
Many mistakenly believe that shisha is not as harmful or addictive as smoking cigarettes pointing out that shisha can actually be more harmful because of the way it is smoked, Eissenberg explained.
His chemical analysis of the water pipe and cigarette smoke, conducted in a laboratory, found that the smoke from a 45-minute shisha session exposed a smoker to 1.7 times the amount of nicotine of a normal cigarette.
It also contained 8.4 times the amount of harmful carbon monoxide and a massive 36 times the amount of tar. Tobacco smoke from shisha contains many of the same poisons and can cause addiction in the same way as the smoke from cigarettes.
Calling for more research into the effects of water pipe smoking and more work to raise awareness of its dangers, Prof. Eissenberg added: “Why should we care about water pipe smoking? Because our youth are getting addicted to it, and it’s killing them.”
Courtesy: thepeninsulaqatar.com
this post gave me cancer RIP me:P
However, belief is stronger than knowledge because it is easier to achieve. And the human race is lazy by nature.
Everything is made from the same stuff: elementary particles. Whatever you take apart you'll end up with quarks, a red one, a green one, and a blue one, electrons, and some force carriers like photons, gluons, W-bosons, and gravitons. Not to forget the Higgs particle in the beginning of the conversion from pure energy into matter. Anything else you hear are pure tales, fairy tales.
Nice report from Qatar Living. I totally agree with Molten Metal.
Reading the comments in this thread and the logic in the explained science gave me cancer.
Brit, The technically , how could water would hold a thing { your earth } which has not came out it ........ water is like a mom to the earth ........ and further deep ...... water comes from the gases { Oxy + Hydro. } ......... and gases come from space ......... and space comes from .................
Smoking kills. It's better to stay away from such a disgusting habit.
Mufti - Generally most smokers sooner or later are prone to many diseases. If one person whom you mention is healthy after having smoked for a long time that doesn't apply to all those who smoke.
Earth comes from water ?
Mufti is right, we come from our parents , our parents eat food which comes from dust { earth } ...... and earth comes from the water ............ so { most } creatures come from water ....... and water comes form air ........ and air comes from ......... so on .............
Mufti, Go for a lungs test where you inhale to fill your lungs & then exhale for max time you can and you will get a graph ........... after this test you come back with the warning from the doctor ....... which will ask your quit the unwanted act .........
The next trip take your boss if he is a good person { non smoker ] ....... then compare your reports ....... his graph will be longer ....... a horizontal straight line where as yours will be very short line that will be descending as well ..... it will show your lungs are weak ........ can't hold the air ........ linings are having a lair of soot ............
Our parents are our makers. We haven't come from ashes or dust.
Go back to our maker
Ashes to ashes - dust to dust
Go back where ??
Our lungs are designed for oxygen, it's risky to experiment poisons on your body, we need to respect our health ....... our body is a gift from the Almighty .......... we need to go back without any stains on it ..........
He started late like me. I started four years ago when i was 21.
Mufti, Now dangers are high lighted via media ........ but humans have a tendency to go AShTRAY ...............
My grand father has been smoking Sheesha(with raw tobacco) last 64 years. He is 84 and way healthy, walks almost 1 km a day.