Hookah is unhealthy or not for children, teenagers, adults. The opinion of doctors reviews

Europeans' interest in the culture of the Middle East has a rich history dating back to the time of colonization. Almost every city you can find restaurants of Indian, Turkish or Arabic cuisine. Instead of a hamburger in a fast-food outlets are increasingly bought shawarma or falafel.

Belly dancing is taught in almost all the fitness clubs. Hookah has become commonplace attribute of good cheer. For some hookah smoking - this method of relaxation, for others - a tribute to fashion. However, few people think it is harmful to health or not.

What is a hookah, his device

Hookah - a device for tobacco smoking. It is not known where the instrument was invented, but the first mention of it are found in literature dating back to the beginning of the XVI century.

Historians believe that the birthplace of this device is India, where hookah smoking was particularly popular among the dignitaries. House has fashioned accessory is an indicator of the status of the host.

tobacco through a hookah smoking tradition quickly spread around the world and has become a kind of calling card of the Middle East, popular among European tourists. Each region is a popular device for smoking has its own name. In Russia it is the hookah in Egypt - Shisha, Turkey - narghile.

To understand the principle of operation of the device, it is necessary to understand its structure. Traditional Hookah consists of several basic elements, each of which performs its function:

1. Flask: it is poured into a liquid, which cools and filters the smoke. The first flask made of coconut shell, but in the future to make them began to use porcelain, various types of metal, glass or even crystal.
2. Mine: It is a metal tube of small diameter, a decorated molding, glass, wood, or plastic. Its lower end is 2-3 cm. Immersed in water, and the upper cup is crowned for the tobacco mixture. The shaft is fixed in the neck of the flask by threaded connections or seals. The best material for manufacturing shafts - steels, but in series production often use aluminum. This reduces the life of a hookah service.
3. Hose: flexible tube having one end inserted into the pipe adjacent the mine, and the other ends a mouthpiece. Initially, hoses made of hollow stems, bark or snakeskin. Now for the manufacture of vinyl used.
4. Bowl: ceramic or earthenware container for stacking the tobacco blend. The larger it is, the longer you can smoke hookah. To achieve the unique flavor and emphasize the taste of tobacco, you can make a bowl of fruit. Typically, this is done using the fruits rounded, with a dense skin, such as orange or grapefruit.
5. Plate: metal tray with walls, located under the cup. It can be easy to shake off the ashes and not completely burned-out pieces of coal.
6. Valve: an important structural element that provides free air circulation in the system.
7. cap: tracery knob that fits over the bowl. It prevents embers from the wind gusts. Hookah Professional assure that the bell provides uniformity tobacco warm respectively obtained smoke flavor addition.

Tobacco is poured into the bowl and cover foil in which then bore holes, or special cap with perforations. Spread on top of the embers. With vigorous inspiratory air is heated to a temperature of about 200? C.

Passing through the tobacco blend, it causes evaporation flavored impregnation. The resulting smoke gets into the shaft and then into the flask with water, where it is cooled and filtered. As a result, cooling of essential oils slurry is formed having a rich taste and delicate flavor. It was her and the smoker inhales.

What happens in the body when smoking hookah

Hookah is unhealthy or not - is a difficult question, and to give him a clear answer, you need to understand what happens in the human body during smoking.

At its core, hookah mixture containing nicotine are not much different from the cigarette tobacco. Despite the fact that the concentration of tar, benzene, formaldehyde and other toxic substances in it are much lower, while smoking in the light enters a larger volume of carbon monoxide.

Accumulate in the body, it constricts blood vessels impedes the access of oxygen to brain cells and internal organs, causing oxygen starvation.

If the hookah is harmful for adults, it can be potentially dangerous to the health of adolescents. From young toxins derived much longer, respectively, carbon monoxide poisoning process and harmful chemical elements is prolonged. Therefore, to take children on a friendly chat with a hookah is strictly prohibited.

What is more harmful: the hookah or cigarettes

Sellers hookahs argue that this type of smoking is harmless to health, because the smoke passes through water, which filters out all the harmful impurities. But whether or not this really?

The reality is that even in a purified and cooled slurry contains toxins, carbon dioxide, heavy metals and, of course, the nicotine in sufficiently high concentration.

Research scientists have shown that the composition of the blood of hookah smokers and cigarette approximately the same. And in those and other high content of carbon monoxide and nicotine derivatives was revealed. Only people who used nicotine tobacco, tests were as close as possible to normal.

The decisive parameter in assessing the harm of a particular method of smoking is the amount of vapor steam inhaled. The amount of toxic substances entering the smoker's lungs for an hour shisha session is comparable to the dose received after smoking ten cigarettes.

Because smoking through the water filter requires some effort, with vigorous inspiratory resin and toxins are not only settle on the upper respiratory tract, but also penetrate deeply into the lungs, many times increases the risk of the development Oncology.

Thus, the regular use of hookah with mixtures containing nicotine can cause the body is much more harmful than smoking cigarettes.

What exactly it is harmful to health hookah

Apart from the fact that during the use of mixtures containing nicotine enters the body loading dose of toxic substances, there are several factors that increase the risk for the health of the smoker.

Hookah is usually smoked companies. Even if you use an external personal mouthpiece, can not completely exclude the possibility of transmission of infections. Through smoking with infected people can pick up any sore, starting with the banal herpes and ending with tuberculosis.

Poor ventilation hookah hall promotes the absorption of up to 60% of harmful substances that can adversely affect the well-being of even non-smokers, especially young children.

Regular use of shisha has a detrimental effect on the reproductive function of both women and men.

As hookah smoking affects the human body

Hookah is harmful to health or not, can be understood by examining its effect on various body systems.

With regular and frequent smoking hookah following violations may occur in individual organs and systems:

System or a separate body	effect
The cardiovascular system	Possible deterioration of blood supply to the heart caused by constriction of capillaries, increased blood pressure, decreased vascular tone walls, development of angina and atherosclerosis.
Lungs	Regular hookah smoking can cause chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and bronchitis. Inflammatory processes are a consequence of tissue irritation lung noxious vapors
organ of vision	When smoking a hookah is emitted intense thick smoke, which can cause itching, irritation and drying of the cornea and cause inflammation of the choroid.
central nervous system	At the first puffs may be a reduction in the mental and physical activity. A feeling of complete relaxation and comfort contributes to the development of psychological dependence. Hookah smoking on alcohol-containing beverages may cause dizziness, nausea, weakness, headache, and even loss of consciousness.

After a long stay in a smoky environment can occur carbon monoxide poisoning. Accumulation of carbon dioxide in the body prevents saturation of brain cells and internal organs of oxygen. As a result, oxygen starvation is a malfunction of the cardiovascular and nervous system.

Characteristic signs of carbon monoxide poisoning:

• dizziness, darkening of the eyes, ringing in the ears;
• general weakness, drowsiness, incoordination;
• nausea, vomiting;
• irregular heartbeat.

If you experience one or more of the above symptoms, you should immediately stop smoking and to get out into the fresh air. Rub the body to improve blood circulation. If necessary, apply a cool compress to the forehead.

Harmful if hookah tobacco without nicotine

Hookah is harmful to health or not, if we use a mixture of fruit that do not contain nicotine - if the damage from Cigarette smoking is obvious, that proper use of mixtures containing no nicotine can be called conditionally useful.

For example:

1. After the first deep puffs a smoker feels a sense of peace, calm and mild euphoria. Improves emotional state, reduces the level of psychological stress. The effect lasts no more than 20 minutes, but this time is enough to switch brain with everyday problems on a quality vacation.
2. The cooled steam passing through the vocal cords, increases their elasticity.
3. If instead of water use herbal tincture or tea with leaves of mint or eucalyptus, and put in a bowl of fruit mix without nicotine, the water pipe to turn into a kind of inhaler.

Thus, hookah smoking can be an excellent therapy for stress and psychological strain.

Nevertheless, the claim that non-nicotine smoking blends is absolutely harmless, is false. Inhaled by the smoker vapor still contains residues of resin and carbon monoxide. However, tobacco without nicotine is not addictive and moderation will not leave irreversible health effects.

Precautions when smoking hookah

Despite the apparent dangers of smoking hookah fans are increasing. To reduce the risk of negative consequences, it is necessary for health adhere to the following rules:

1. Choose carefully hookah. It is important to ensure that after the previous visitor hookah treated with a disinfectant solution and the water in the flask was replaced.
2. Smoking shisha is necessary only in well-ventilated areas.
3. Be sure to use an individual external mouthpiece. Ensure that the service personnel at the puffing and "blowing" equipment used his own head.
4. Do not prepare a hookah on alcohol-containing liquids and do not interfere with the smoke from the use of alcoholic beverages. After these experiments can skyrocket pressure. If you want a more vivid sensations, it is better to try shisha on the juice or fresh fruit.
5. For self-use only high quality tobacco blends and coal.
6. When the smoke began to taste bitter, so it increased the content of carbon monoxide due to the overheating of the bowl. In this case, you need to remove the embers and "blow" hookah tobacco to prevent further sticking to the bottom of the bookmark and prolong the pleasure.
7. If the steam has lost flavor and inspiration begins sadnit throat is the first sign that the tobacco is completely dry and smoking should be stopped in order to avoid increasing the concentration of carbon monoxide in the lungs.

Hookah smoking (as, indeed, and cigarettes) contraindicated in pregnant and lactating women, as well as people suffering from diseases of the cardiovascular system and respiratory tract. Recommended session duration is 40 to 50 minutes. To reduce the risks to health, do not smoke shisha more than once a week.

Hookah smoking relaxes and promotes a good time in the company of close friends. He, of course, harmful to health, but smoking it or not - it is a question of freedom of choice.

Registration of the article: Mila Friedan

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