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How harmful is shisha smoking?[/h]
Traditionally shisha tobacco contains
cigarette tobacco, so like cigarettes it contains nicotine, tar, carbon monoxide and heavy metals, such as arsenic and lead. As a result, shisha smokers are at risk of the same kinds of diseases as cigarette smokers, such as heart disease, cancer, respiratory disease and problems during pregnancy.
It’s difficult to say exactly how much smoke or toxic substances you’re exposed to in a typical shisha session.People smoke shisha for much longer periods of time than they smoke a cigarette, and in
one puff of shisha you inhale the
same amount of smoke as you’d get from a smoking a
whole cigarette.
The average shisha-smoking session lasts an hour and research has shown that in this time you can inhale the
same amount of smoke as from
more than 100 cigarettes.
Some people mistakenly think that shisha smoking is not addictive because the water used in the pipe can absorb nicotine. In reality, because only some of the nicotine is absorbed by the water, shisha smokers are still exposed to enough nicotine to cause an addiction.
British Heart Foundation
Personally I think he is a very silly boy for even putting it out there. Sort of Balotelli-esque behaviour