For those of you who don't know shisha, shisha is a multi-stemmed, glass-based water pipe device for smoking tobacco, originating from India. What makes smoking shisha diffrent from smokin ciggerate is that you could add flavour to a shisha. Most commonly are fruits flavour, like apple or lemon or maybe lemon mint.
i am a big fan of shisha. i went to a shisha cafe at lease 3 times in the last 2 months. I dont smoke, i just like the fruity flavour of a shisha and because of the innocent fruity taste, i thought that shisha is not that hazardous to your health, unlike ciggerates. But, when i was browsing through facebook, i found this facebook groups who is against shisha and i was interested to know the reasons why. And as i read tha facts about shisha, i was so surprise. It is a lot more hazardous than ciggerates.
A comparison of nicotine (the addictive component of tobacco) concentrations in body fluids reveals that a typical 45-minute shisha session exposes its user to the equivalent of 15 regular cigarettes worth of nicotine. And last week i got through 2 session of shisha in kemang, that makes it like 30 ciggerates in 90 minutes. and another interesting facts is the tobbacco use in a shisha, shisha tobacco to be 100-fold more concentrated in tar, 4-fold more concentrated in nicotine, and several-fold more concentrated in toxic heavy metals like nickel, arsenic, and cobalt. I was even more surprise ! About a month ago i enjoy about 3 session of shisha with 3 of my high school friends, but 1 of them refuse to even take a sip. So it's like 15 ciggerates in one night !
But, personally, i think it is hard to be addicted to shisha. Because, it is to expensive to buy them on a daily bassis. but, for those of you who loves shisha, my suggestion to you is to take it easy.
source :
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?sid=a154cae5313e96c29ab8407cc46c0f69&gid=2216752276
( i know its a face book page, but about the author :
Kashif Yousuf is a medical doctor currently pursuing his specialization residency training at Hamilton Health Sciences in Hamilton, Ontario.)
i am a big fan of shisha. i went to a shisha cafe at lease 3 times in the last 2 months. I dont smoke, i just like the fruity flavour of a shisha and because of the innocent fruity taste, i thought that shisha is not that hazardous to your health, unlike ciggerates. But, when i was browsing through facebook, i found this facebook groups who is against shisha and i was interested to know the reasons why. And as i read tha facts about shisha, i was so surprise. It is a lot more hazardous than ciggerates.
A comparison of nicotine (the addictive component of tobacco) concentrations in body fluids reveals that a typical 45-minute shisha session exposes its user to the equivalent of 15 regular cigarettes worth of nicotine. And last week i got through 2 session of shisha in kemang, that makes it like 30 ciggerates in 90 minutes. and another interesting facts is the tobbacco use in a shisha, shisha tobacco to be 100-fold more concentrated in tar, 4-fold more concentrated in nicotine, and several-fold more concentrated in toxic heavy metals like nickel, arsenic, and cobalt. I was even more surprise ! About a month ago i enjoy about 3 session of shisha with 3 of my high school friends, but 1 of them refuse to even take a sip. So it's like 15 ciggerates in one night !
But, personally, i think it is hard to be addicted to shisha. Because, it is to expensive to buy them on a daily bassis. but, for those of you who loves shisha, my suggestion to you is to take it easy.
source :
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?sid=a154cae5313e96c29ab8407cc46c0f69&gid=2216752276
( i know its a face book page, but about the author :
Kashif Yousuf is a medical doctor currently pursuing his specialization residency training at Hamilton Health Sciences in Hamilton, Ontario.)
1 comment:
Bayu-
I'm very glad you looked into the health hazards. Many people seem to forget it's tobacco and think it's safe. Your information is useful.
Thank you
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