"Smoking tobacco through a waterpipe, or hookah, may be hip but it's rapidly turning into more than a worrisome fad, according to a Georgetown University researcher. "People who use these devices don't realize that they could be inhaling what could be the equivalent of a pack of cigarettes in one typical 30-60 minute session with a waterpipe," says Director of Georgetown's Cancer Genetics and Epidemiology program.
The trend has hit European and American cities, especially colleage towns, who has just published a series of studies on the recent boom in waterpipe use in the Eastern Mediterranean region, particularly among young women, who are culturally discouraged from smoking cigarettes. Increasingly, clubs in the U.S. offer hookah pipes at a fee, using tobacco flavored by apples, molasses, or other ingredients. For some reason, waterpipe smokers typically believe that this form of tobacco use is less dangerous.
"People think the water absorbs the toxins, and that is true to some extent if the toxins are water soluble, but tar isn't. And tar contains the carcinogens," We believe that, compared to the typical cigarette smoker, waterpipe smokers are exposed to larger total amounts of nicotine, carbon monoxide and certain other toxins. And because the tobacco is burning at a lower temperature, it is more tolerable to inhale deeply, and in fact you need more force to pull air through the high resistance of the water pathway. "That means the tobacco smoke can be penetrating deeper in a person's respiratory tract than cigarette smoke does. The damage could be even worse than seen in cigarette smokers."
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The trend has hit European and American cities, especially colleage towns, who has just published a series of studies on the recent boom in waterpipe use in the Eastern Mediterranean region, particularly among young women, who are culturally discouraged from smoking cigarettes. Increasingly, clubs in the U.S. offer hookah pipes at a fee, using tobacco flavored by apples, molasses, or other ingredients. For some reason, waterpipe smokers typically believe that this form of tobacco use is less dangerous.
"People think the water absorbs the toxins, and that is true to some extent if the toxins are water soluble, but tar isn't. And tar contains the carcinogens," We believe that, compared to the typical cigarette smoker, waterpipe smokers are exposed to larger total amounts of nicotine, carbon monoxide and certain other toxins. And because the tobacco is burning at a lower temperature, it is more tolerable to inhale deeply, and in fact you need more force to pull air through the high resistance of the water pathway. "That means the tobacco smoke can be penetrating deeper in a person's respiratory tract than cigarette smoke does. The damage could be even worse than seen in cigarette smokers."
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