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Smoking hookah as unhealthy as cigarettes

Hookah is a traditional Arabic water-pipe where fruit-flavored tobacco by inhaling through a hose of the pipe. The popular Arabic pipe is becoming more and more popular especially among younger adults and teenagers these days.

The latter fact aroused concerns of anti-smoking groups around the world, and triggered many researches. The latest research carried out by the UK Public Health Department and Tobacco Control Council showed that hookah is even worse for health than smoking ordinary cigarettes.

People who use hookah to smoke herbal and fruit-scented tobacco may be exposed to huge carbon monoxide rates in the blood, the research found. According to the research, one session of hookah puffing led to carbon monoxide rates three to four times higher in comparison to the level from one cigarette. Carbon monoxide intoxication can result in faints and mental disorders.

Dolores Johnson, spokesperson for the Department of Health, declared the reports of health complications related to hookah smoking became a major issue for health officials, because many youngsters simply don’t regards hookah as tobacco smoking process.

Hookah bars, often accommodated with low tables and cozy sofas have become favorite places for leisure in many cities throughout the United Kingdom (UK), like London, Liverpool, Leeds and Sheffield.

Prof. Herbert Brown, the research author, admitted that hookah was at least 350 times more hazardous than smoking a cigarette.

A trend closely linked with Middle East culture, hookah parties gather many people together, smoking, chatting and having fun. It became a more social activity, and many hookah-lovers consider the water-pipe to be healthier than cigarettes.

"I never heard a news report saying that hookah is dangerous it can lead to cancer, as it was in the case of cigarettes", said 21-year old British Afghanistani woman. "If my father knows I am smoking hookah once a week, he would not be concerned like he was when found me smoking a cigarette," she added.

It was this delusion and discovering heavy rates of carbon monoxide in a young man who had given up cigarettes, but kept smoking hookah which initiated the Health Department research.

Scientists have discovered that shisha users inhale more frequently than cigarette smokers. Researchers assess that by inhaling longer and in larger amounts, a hookah user drags as much as 100 cigarettes within one session.

Mehdi Ibraghim, a 31-year-old owner of a hookah lounge in Liverpool, has a different opinion. "Of course, there is a risk to the health, however, it largely depends on the volume of hookah usage, and all the proof I have heard is that puffing a hookah is nothing in common with lighting up a cigarette, he admitted, adding that many people even don’t inhale the smoke.

However, there is one more concern for the scientist, besides the alarming carbon monoxide levels. Passing one pipe among several people can result in various infections and diseases from herpes to flue and tuberculosis. Maybe scientist went too far, but it is all about hygiene, that is not maintained while smoking a hookah.