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1)
One waterpipe session like one pack of cigarettes
"People who use these devices don't realize that they
could be inhaling what is believed to be the equivalent of
a pack of cigarettes in one typical 30-60 minute session
with a waterpipe, because such a large quantity of pure,
shredded tobacco is used," said Christopher Loffredo,
Ph.D., Director of the Cancer Genetics and Epidemiology
program at Georgetown University Medical Center. The Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer
Center, part of Georgetown University Medical Center and
Georgetown University Hospital
2) 'Relaxing, fun' image of hookah smoking ignore
health harms
Hookah (shisha) tobacco smoking exposes the user to
substantial amounts of toxicants such as carbon
monoxide, nicotine, carcinogens and tar. University of Pittsburgh School of
Medicine
3) Harmful hookahs
Despite warnings from the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention that hookah smoking can be just as dangerous as
cigarettes, many young adults believe that using the water
pipes is not harmful to their health. University of California
4) Nicotine and cancer-causing agents
Those who smoked water pipes had elevated levels of
nicotine, cotinine, tobacco-related cancer-causing
agents, and volatile organic compounds (VOC) in
their urine, and this may increase their risk for cancer
and other chronic diseases.
Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a
journal of the American Association for Cancer Research
5) Water-pipe smoking dangers
"We report for the first time that toxicant exposures from
water-pipe and cigarette smoking differed in pattern, with
higher exposure to some toxicants like carbon monoxide and
benzene in water-pipe smokers." Jacob explained that high
carbon monoxide exposure increases the risk for acute
events such as a heart attack, stroke or sudden death
in people who have cardiovascular or lung diseases. Jacob
warned that benzene exposure is a concern because it is
known to cause leukemia in humans. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers
& Prevention, a journal of the American Association
for Cancer Research
6) Water pipe smoking has the same respiratory effects
as smoking cigarettes
Water pipe smoking, such as hookah or bong smoking,
affects lung function and respiratory symptoms as
much as cigarette smoking. "Our findings reveal that there
were profound effects of water pipe smoking on lung
function values, which were similar to the effects
observed in deep inhalation cigarette smokers." Mohammad Hossein Boskabady, MD, PhD.
Respirology
7) Shisha harmful effects
"While smoking a single cigarette might produce a total of
approximately 500-600 ml of smoke, a single waterpipe use
episode might produce about 50,000 ml of smoke." European Society of Cardiology
8) Serious health effects caused by water pipe smoking
(WPS), including reduced lung function and other
cardiorespiratory conditions. WPS was associated with a
significant reduction in lung function,
equivalent to cigarette smoking. WPS was associated with
an increase in blood pressure, heart rate, and
respiratory rate, as well as decreased lung
function. American
College of Chest Physicians
9) Hookah or shisha
"The popularity of waterpipes may be due in part to
perceptions that they are safer than cigarettes. However,
waterpipe smoke contains nicotine, carbon monoxide,
carcinogens and may contain greater amounts of tar and
heavy metals than cigarette smoke," warns senior
investigator Jennifer
O'Loughlin, a professor at the University of Montreal
Department Of Social and Preventive Medicine and a
scientist at the University of Montreal Hospital Research
Center
10) Waterpipes - same toxicants as cigarette smokers
Smoking tobacco through a waterpipe exposes the user to
the same toxicants - carbon monoxide and nicotine - as
puffing on a cigarette, which could lead to nicotine
addiction and heart disease. "The results are important
because they provide concrete, scientific evidence that
contradicts the oft-repeated myth that waterpipe tobacco
smoking does not involve users inhaling the same harmful
chemicals that cigarette smokers do," said principal
investigator Thomas Eissenberg, Ph.D., professor in the
VCU Department of Psychology. In previous work, it was
demonstrated that waterpipe tobacco smoke contains
compounds that cause cancer and other diseases. Virginia Commonwealth University
11) Hookah
Disease
According to the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, hookah contains many of the same harmful
toxins as cigarette smoke and has been associated with
lung cancer, respiratory illness, low birth weight and
periodontal disease.
"We hope that
our findings will prompt state and local governments to
consider targeted regulations that ban or limit these
establishments near educational institutions and that
waterpipe smoking regulations are included in campuswide
tobacco-related policies," said Wasim Maziak, M.D., Ph.D.,
a professor at Florida International University and one of
the collaborators on the study, along with researchers
from the University of Florida, the University of South
Carolina and the University of Michigan.
"Hookah smoking
places our youth at a health risk and must be taken
seriously as part of the larger fight against tobacco and
the preventable diseases it causes." University of Florida. American Journal of
Preventive Medicine
12) Hookah tobacco smoking
Nearly 1 in 5 recently surveyed high school seniors report
having smoked tobacco from a hookah in the past year, and
more than a third of them reported smoking hookahs often
enough to be considered regular users.
Hookahs, also
known as waterpipes or narghiles, are devices that allow
users to smoke tobacco. Users are exposed to many of the
same toxicants in cigarettes - including tar, nicotine,
carbon monoxide and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.
Comparisons suggest that a one hour-long hookah
smoking session exposes the user to about 20 to 40 times
the tar of a single cigarette. Consistent with this,
preliminary reports associate hookah use with cancer,
cardiovascular disease, decreased pulmonary function and
nicotine dependence. University
of Pittsburgh Center for Research on Media, Technology,
and Health. American Journal of Preventive Medicine
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