A MUST READ!! Shisha VS Cigarettes: Which Is More Dangerous To The Human Body System?

Saw this piece on the bird street last night, made by one Aporokodoctor man. I find it interesting, so I decided to share with us here. READ!

30% of adults believe that Shisha (otherwise known as hookah) is less dangerous than smoking cigarettes, others believe that the water in shisha serves to filter some of the toxins present in shisha.

Another group believes that shisha contains only flavour and no toxins at all, given that most of them smell sweet. This is far from the truth.

For so many people, shisha is cooler and less frowned upon than cigarettes. We look down on people who smoke cigarettes, it looks cooler.

Shisha Is Harmful

Your generator gives out Carbon Monoxide, a very harmful gas, if you put a generator in a room and close all the windows, everybody in that room d!es.

Now Shisha contains the same carbon monoxide that your generator gives out. This time, they just covered with pineapple flavor.

Your red blood cells transfer oxygen to your cells and collect carbon dioxide, drop it back in the lungs and pick up oxygen.

Carbon monoxide refuses to let your red blood cells go, like that toxic relationship, it refuses to go anywhere. Your red cells can’t pick oxygen again.

Now let us compare, one cigarette to a canister of shisha. A single session of shisha will deliver 25 times more tar, 125 times more smoke, 2.5 times more nicotine and 10 times the carbon monoxide.

Let us go further, the average cigarette contains about 600mls of smoke, will an hour-long session of shisha contains about 90,000mls of smoke.

Compared to Cigarettes, Shisha delivers more smoke and toxins

The truth is this: We do not have enough data to show how just how much shisha you would have to take to be at the same risk as a cigarette smoker, seeing as:

• Cigarettes are more accessible.
• Cigarette smokers tend to do so more often.
• How deeply either smoker inhales the smoke

However, some pointers suggest that people who tend to smoke shisha pick up a cigarette habit and vice versa. See some research here.

The Risks Are Similar

It really doesn’t matter if you pick up a cigarette or take up shisha smoking, the risks are similar, from heart disease, lung cancer, asthma, ageing prematurely, other forms of cancer, lung disease, gum disease, etc. The risks are the same.

Furthermore, these risks might also affect people who are around shisha smoke. We call them second-hand smokers.

I am willing to bet that many young adults who constantly take shisha do not know exactly what they’re doing to their bodies. This is just to ensure that everyone out there is informed enough to make a decision. Shisha smoking is just as dangerous as cigarette smoking and there are consequences.

Shisha Vs, Cigarettes: Which Is More Dangerous To The Human Body System?

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