Is smoking hookah bad for you?

Smoking hookah is not safer than smoking cigarettes. A hookah is a water pipe that consists of a smoke chamber, a water bowl, a pipe, and a hose. The tobacco used in a hookah is often flavored and heated with charcoal. When someone uses a hookah, the tobacco is burned, and the smoke is pulled into the water bowl.

A person uses a mouthpiece to breathe in. The smoke passes through the water and a rubber tube that ends in the mouthpiece. The tobacco in a hookah pipe is no less toxic than in a cigarette, and the water in the hookah cools the smoke but does not filter out the toxins in the smoke. Hookah smokers may breathe in more tobacco smoke than cigarette smokers do because one hookah smoking session can last an hour or longer.

Hookah smoke has high levels of harmful chemicals such as tar, carbon monoxide, heavy metals, and cancer-causing chemicals called carcinogens. In fact, hookah smokers are exposed to more carbon monoxide and smoke than cigarette smokers. Hookah smoking is linked to lung, bladder, stomach, esophageal, and oral cancers as well as heart disease and other serious conditions such as lung diseases and carbon monoxide poisoning. Hookah smoking delivers high levels of nicotine, as cigarette smoking does.

Hookah smoke poses dangers linked to secondhand smoke. Hookah smoking by pregnant people is linked to low birth weight babies 1. Using an unclean pipe or sharing a pipe with other smokers is risky and could raise your chance of getting diseases such as the flu, tuberculosis, herpes, hepatitis, or COVID-19.

I hope this information helps!

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Is smoking hookah bad for you?

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