Hookah, or shisha is now in vogue - many smoke it instead of cigarettes, believing that the water filter reduces to zero the potential harm of tobacco. Certainly not!
Russians are addicted to the hookah, relaxing in Egypt and Turkey. And continued in Moscow: they brought home a beautiful exotic instrument. For many metropolitan restaurants offer visitors a hookah ... Man is immersed in the sweet Kumar, and lungs, heart and blood vessels have not sweet. Every fan of Chichi - candidate for beds in the department of cardio-or pulmonology.
The taste and smell
To use two types of hookah tobacco.
Plain black more popular in the East. It bought by weight in dry form, and before the tobacco is soaked and squeeze.
Flavored tobacco, popular in our country, imbued with honey or molasses in the worst case, with the addition of various "flavors".
What are the risks of hookah?
Smoke. Unlike other methods of smoking tobacco in shishe due to its moisture content is not glowing and burning, and "dry" with the release of a mixture of smoke and steam. This mixture is inhaled deeply, and the process may take several hours. This is comparable to smoking one to two packs of cigarettes!
Nicotine. More - more. "There is no need to worry - tell a naive novice - in hookah tobacco nicotine do not!" Even as it is - no less, and sometimes even more than in cigarettes. This entails an ordinary physical dependence, nicotine. Damage to the heart, teeth and blood vessels is the same as that of a normal smoking.
Resins. In a standard portion of tobacco for hookah bowl resin as much as a pack of cigarettes. With the passage of smoke through the water really cleared - but only partly.
A man sits on a special atmosphere, a light oriental veil, which enveloped hookah ritual.
EXPERT COMMENTARY
Andrew Belevsky, chief pulmonologist Moscow:
- Do not deny, hookah smoke is clearing the water and causes a slight yet less harmful than cigarette smoke. This is connected with the peculiarities of filtration, and with lower temperatures - at the end of a cigarette tobacco smolders at t> 1000 `C, but in hookahs - with 450'S. In addition, it is not so much glowing as dries. However, no cleaning does not reduce the amount of nicotine and its target - it is, above all, the cardiovascular system. Nicotine causes blood vessels to spasm, resulting in muscles, including cardiac, loses nutrients. Constant "starvation" attack - a direct path to a heart attack. But many smoke hookah for hours and in poorly ventilated space - highly concentrated mixture of tar and carbon monoxide poisoning and a smoker himself, and sitting next to people.
• Why does smoking feel dizzy? The reason - carbon monoxide (CO), which is formed during combustion of coal. This gas, popularly known as carbon monoxide, increases the heart rate. As long as you smoke, the heart works on wear.
• Many believe that a one-off or a removable mouthpiece in public institutions guarantees sterility. This is not so. Infectious agents rather tenacious and often waiting for the next "client" on the inner surface of the hose. This way you can pick ARI or even tuberculosis.
In one cigarette (weighing 1 gram) - 10-15 mg of nicotine. In hookahs (one refill - 8 grams) - 40 mg.
• By the way, the hose ends up tiny particles of toxic substances. On the one hand, this is a plus - additional filtering. On the other - minus, because the accumulated impurities in there next time may get into the smoker's lungs.
RULES OF THE SECURITY
While you can not refuse treatment? And in general, unable to quit smoking? Try to at least reduce the risks.
Hookah impossible to combine
• from the liquor. If you use alcohol inside, an additional load on the heart. If you fill up a flask - get a portion of additional dope. Best accompanies drink - green tea: it contains antioxidants. The best filter - clean water
• with coffee. Hookah increases pressure, coffee enhances this effect. In the East, after serving hookah dates - they reduce the pressure.
• with a hungry life. In the long term - gastritis and peptic ulcer disease. Smoking damages the fasting mucosa of the gastrointestinal tract. Eat at least half an hour before smoking the hookah.
Monday 12 October 2009
Wednesday 18 March 2009
Tobacco - part of cigarette
Tobacco
Only a portion of the tobacco inside a cigarette comes from the leaf of a tobacco plant. A significant amount of the shredded brown innards of most modern cigarettes is a paper product called "reconstituted tobacco" or "homogenized sheet tobacco," which is made from a pulp of mashed tobacco stems and other parts of the tobacco leaf that would otherwise go to waste. Manufacturers spray and impregnate reconstituted tobacco paper with nicotine and other substances lost during the process, along with as many as 600 chemical additives. These include several that may come as a surprise, such as ammonia, which aids in the delivery of nicotine, and chocolate, which masks the bitter taste of tobacco. Finally, the 'recon' is sliced to resemble shredded leaf tobacco. In addition to reconstituted tobacco, cigarette companies pack cigarettes with so-called puffed tobacco (also called "expanded tobacco"), which allows them to produce more cigarettes per pound of tobacco grown with lower levels of tar particles in the smoke. Manufacturers saturate this tobacco, which they make from the leaf of the plant, with freon and ammonia gases and then freeze-dry it. This process expands the tobacco, increasing its volume to at least double its natural state.
Only a portion of the tobacco inside a cigarette comes from the leaf of a tobacco plant. A significant amount of the shredded brown innards of most modern cigarettes is a paper product called "reconstituted tobacco" or "homogenized sheet tobacco," which is made from a pulp of mashed tobacco stems and other parts of the tobacco leaf that would otherwise go to waste. Manufacturers spray and impregnate reconstituted tobacco paper with nicotine and other substances lost during the process, along with as many as 600 chemical additives. These include several that may come as a surprise, such as ammonia, which aids in the delivery of nicotine, and chocolate, which masks the bitter taste of tobacco. Finally, the 'recon' is sliced to resemble shredded leaf tobacco. In addition to reconstituted tobacco, cigarette companies pack cigarettes with so-called puffed tobacco (also called "expanded tobacco"), which allows them to produce more cigarettes per pound of tobacco grown with lower levels of tar particles in the smoke. Manufacturers saturate this tobacco, which they make from the leaf of the plant, with freon and ammonia gases and then freeze-dry it. This process expands the tobacco, increasing its volume to at least double its natural state.
Monday 19 January 2009
Manufacture and ingredients
A cigarette is a small paper-wrapped cylinder (generally less than 120mm in length and 10mm in diameter) of cured and shredded or cut tobacco leaves. The cigarette is ignited at one end and allowed to smoulder for the purpose of inhalation of its smoke from the filtered end, inserted in the mouth. The term, as commonly used, typically refers to a tobacco cigarette, but can apply to similar devices containing other herbs, such as cannabis.
A cigarette is distinguished from a cigar by its smaller size, use of processed leaf, and paper wrapping; cigars are typically composed entirely of whole leaf tobacco. Cigarettes were largely unknown in the English-speaking world before the Crimean War, when British soldiers began emulating their Ottoman Turkish comrades, who resorted to rolling their tobacco with newsprint.
Manufacture and ingredients
In practice, commercial cigarettes and cigarette tobaccos rarely contain pure tobacco. Producers often use a tremendous diversity of additives for a number of purposes, including maintaining blend consistency, improving perceived blend quality, as preservatives and even completely altering the organoleptic qualities of the tobacco smoke. While this is true for many brands of cigarettes, in Canada, the major cigarette brands all contain 100% natural virginia leaf - No Additives. Some cigarettes (known as kreteks, clove cigarettes, or simply cloves) have cloves blended with the tobacco. This is done to enhance the smokers pleasure by numbing the mouth and lungs and providing a mild euphoric effect. Lower-quality clove cigarettes simply have a clove essence added to the tobacco.
In addition to additives, cigarette tobaccos, especially lower-quality blends, are often highly physically processed. For the period of the novel processing of leaf for cigarettes, the leaves are deveined, and the lamina is shredded or cut. Since the leaf is relatively dry at this point, these processes result in a significant amount of tobacco dust. Industrialized operations have developed procedures for collecting this dust and remaking it into usable material (known as reconstituted sheet tobacco).
The removed leaf midveins, which are unsuitable for use in cigarettes in their normal state, were historically discarded or spread on fields, because of their high nitrogen content. Procedures have been developed, however, to expand the stems, and process them for inclusion in the cigarette blends. All these procedures allow cigarette manufacturers to create as many cigarettes as probable using the least amount of raw substances as possible.
The most universal usage of the cigarette is tobacco smoke delivery. The second most common usage of the cigarette is for marijuana smoke delivery. The hand rolled cigarette is the most common form of marijuana cigarette. Marijuana users will usually twist the ends of the cigarette to prevent fine cut marijuana buds from falling out. Tobacco users who roll their own cigarettes, however, will usually not twist the cigarette at the ends; hand rolling tobacco is made in strands so it doesn’t have a propensity to fall out.
Some cigarette smokers roll their own cigarettes by wrapping loose cured tobacco in paper; most, however, purchase machine-made commercially available brands, generally sold in small cardboard packages of 10 or 20 cigarettes in the United States and UK or 25 in Canada. Commercial cigarettes usually contain a cellulose acetate or cotton filter through which the smoker inhales the cigarettes smoke; the filter serves to cool and somewhat clean the smoke.
Recently, cigarette rolling machines are also becoming popular. One can purchase tobacco in pouches or cans, usually at half the price of what one would pay for the same amount pre-rolled. One can get a rolling machine that makes filterless, or straight cigarettes, or one can purchase a machine that packs the tobacco into a pre-rolled form with a filter. These filtered papers usually come in boxes of 200, while unfiltered papers will come in packs ranging from 12 to 64, and some contain even more.
Online cigarette stores
Online stores have recently appeared that offer foreign cigarettes to internet buyers. As many jurisdictions place high taxes on tobacco sales, these could be seen as an effort to avoid paying duty or taxes.
Some online cigarette stores exist to sell tax-free cigarettes inside ones own country of residence as well. The legality of these stores is being questioned currently in the United States. Federal lawmakers contend that these stores are clear tax evasions. Recently in Michigan, several online stores have been subpoenaed by the state for the names and addresses of customers. The state has reportedly been sending out fines for each package purchased, contending tax evasion over Michigans $2-a-pack law.
This same action has also taken place in Wisconsin after the Wisconsin Department of Revenue received a list of several thousand buyers in that state from an online cigarette merchant. However, the effort to collect on the taxes from the listed residents was stopped by order of Governor Jim Doyle a few days later.
A cigarette is distinguished from a cigar by its smaller size, use of processed leaf, and paper wrapping; cigars are typically composed entirely of whole leaf tobacco. Cigarettes were largely unknown in the English-speaking world before the Crimean War, when British soldiers began emulating their Ottoman Turkish comrades, who resorted to rolling their tobacco with newsprint.
Manufacture and ingredients
In practice, commercial cigarettes and cigarette tobaccos rarely contain pure tobacco. Producers often use a tremendous diversity of additives for a number of purposes, including maintaining blend consistency, improving perceived blend quality, as preservatives and even completely altering the organoleptic qualities of the tobacco smoke. While this is true for many brands of cigarettes, in Canada, the major cigarette brands all contain 100% natural virginia leaf - No Additives. Some cigarettes (known as kreteks, clove cigarettes, or simply cloves) have cloves blended with the tobacco. This is done to enhance the smokers pleasure by numbing the mouth and lungs and providing a mild euphoric effect. Lower-quality clove cigarettes simply have a clove essence added to the tobacco.
In addition to additives, cigarette tobaccos, especially lower-quality blends, are often highly physically processed. For the period of the novel processing of leaf for cigarettes, the leaves are deveined, and the lamina is shredded or cut. Since the leaf is relatively dry at this point, these processes result in a significant amount of tobacco dust. Industrialized operations have developed procedures for collecting this dust and remaking it into usable material (known as reconstituted sheet tobacco).
The removed leaf midveins, which are unsuitable for use in cigarettes in their normal state, were historically discarded or spread on fields, because of their high nitrogen content. Procedures have been developed, however, to expand the stems, and process them for inclusion in the cigarette blends. All these procedures allow cigarette manufacturers to create as many cigarettes as probable using the least amount of raw substances as possible.
The most universal usage of the cigarette is tobacco smoke delivery. The second most common usage of the cigarette is for marijuana smoke delivery. The hand rolled cigarette is the most common form of marijuana cigarette. Marijuana users will usually twist the ends of the cigarette to prevent fine cut marijuana buds from falling out. Tobacco users who roll their own cigarettes, however, will usually not twist the cigarette at the ends; hand rolling tobacco is made in strands so it doesn’t have a propensity to fall out.
Some cigarette smokers roll their own cigarettes by wrapping loose cured tobacco in paper; most, however, purchase machine-made commercially available brands, generally sold in small cardboard packages of 10 or 20 cigarettes in the United States and UK or 25 in Canada. Commercial cigarettes usually contain a cellulose acetate or cotton filter through which the smoker inhales the cigarettes smoke; the filter serves to cool and somewhat clean the smoke.
Recently, cigarette rolling machines are also becoming popular. One can purchase tobacco in pouches or cans, usually at half the price of what one would pay for the same amount pre-rolled. One can get a rolling machine that makes filterless, or straight cigarettes, or one can purchase a machine that packs the tobacco into a pre-rolled form with a filter. These filtered papers usually come in boxes of 200, while unfiltered papers will come in packs ranging from 12 to 64, and some contain even more.
Online cigarette stores
Online stores have recently appeared that offer foreign cigarettes to internet buyers. As many jurisdictions place high taxes on tobacco sales, these could be seen as an effort to avoid paying duty or taxes.
Some online cigarette stores exist to sell tax-free cigarettes inside ones own country of residence as well. The legality of these stores is being questioned currently in the United States. Federal lawmakers contend that these stores are clear tax evasions. Recently in Michigan, several online stores have been subpoenaed by the state for the names and addresses of customers. The state has reportedly been sending out fines for each package purchased, contending tax evasion over Michigans $2-a-pack law.
This same action has also taken place in Wisconsin after the Wisconsin Department of Revenue received a list of several thousand buyers in that state from an online cigarette merchant. However, the effort to collect on the taxes from the listed residents was stopped by order of Governor Jim Doyle a few days later.
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