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.
