BNK: Shisha Smoking is Smoking more dangerous than cigarettes
The hookah Bar is a popular meeting place of young people and young adults. The Smoking of hookahs with flavor intense steam is part of a visit to. With increasing popularity, more and more young people with the hookah so Smoking in contact. Around one in three young people has at least smoked a hookah. However, each train on a water pipe is one too many, warns the Federal Association of Resident cardiologists (BNK).
The business with pipe tobacco is booming. Today, four and a half times as much Shisha is sold in tobacco, as in the year 2010. According to BNK, the sales in Germany has risen from 755 to 3.333 tonnes per year. However, the harmless tasty vapor has it, warn the cardiologist. What is the taste like fruits, chocolate or herbs in reality even more harmful than cigarette Smoking. Already young people at risk due to the water pipe, your heart health, experts say.
The harmless-tasting vapor in
“Today we know that adverse effects occur at low concentrations in the blood – also in passive smokers,“ says the BNK-Chairman Dr. Norbert Smetak. In addition to the risks for respiratory diseases and cancer are harmful Shisha is also the heart health of young people Smoking. According to recent studies the risk for heart disease, double this. The risk of suffering a heart attack, is increased by Smoking of water pipes by up to 70 percent. “On top of that, the hookah and E-cigarettes for young people are often an entry point into the classic cigarette consumption darstellen“, Dr. Smetak explained.
What Shisha makes Smoking so dangerous?
In the case of the hookah, the tobacco is heated by a glowing piece of coal. Toxic and cancer are carcinogenic combustion products which are then routed through a water bath and through a tube is inhaled. According to data from the BNK of the smoke contains up to 90 of cancer-causing ingredients. In contrast to cigarette smoke, the vapor, the water pipe is inhaled in much larger quantities. While the volume is in a train of a cigarette 30 to 70 milliliters, inhale the Users of hookahs with each train 300 to 900 milliliters – roughly ten times as much. In addition, the number of trains are much more frequent. A cigarette attracts smokers, on average, eleven to 15 times in a cigarette, pulled on a hookah during a Session of 100 to 290 times. Overall, the smoke corresponds to the volume of a single Shisha Session to a 100 cigarette, so the BNK.
High quantities of Pollutants enter unfiltered into the body
“Due to the larger smoke volume, a significantly larger amount of Harmful substances in the body such as cigarette Smoking,” writes the BNK in a press release. Many people believe that the water filters in the Shisha of the pollutants. According to BNK, but this is a dangerous misconception. A large part of the pollutants is not water soluble and do not filtered in the lungs, including hazardous substances such as nicotine, benzene and tar.
Pure poison for the heart and circulation
How the BNK reported, vessels of the steam of the hookah, just like cigarettes Smoking, to a narrowing of the blood. As a result, the pressure in the vessels increases and vessel, a voltage will be generated walls. This vascular stress could lead at a young age to atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries). Toxins from the steam store increasingly in the vessels. These deposits break up, it can lead to a Vascular occlusion. Possible consequences: A heart attack or stroke. “Young people and their parents should be more informed about the dangers of the new smoke offers,” warns Dr. Smetak. Otherwise, we would have soon less young cigarette smokers, but not less health problems through Smoking. (vb)