Most of the people who are aware of the dangers of cigarette smoking turn to alternatives like hookah to get their nicotine. Researchers caution that hookah smokers can inhale a large potentially dangerous quantity of toxins in just one session.
Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Science have found that as compared with a single cigarette, one hookah session can deliver approximately 125 times the smoke, 25 times the tar, 2.5 times the nicotine and 10 times the carbon monoxide.
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‘One hookah tobacco smoking session has been found to deliver 25 times the tar of a single cigarette.’
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Lead author Brian A. Primack, M.D., Ph.D., assistant vice chancellor for health and society in Pitt's Schools of the Health Sciences, said comparing a hookah smoking session to smoking a single cigarette is a complex comparison to make because of the differences in smoking patterns.
A frequent cigarette smoker may smoke 20 cigarettes per day, while a frequent hookah smoker may only participate in a few hookah sessions each day.
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A substantial and increasing proportion of adolescents seem to be smoking hookahs with enough regularity to create a significant public health concern.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported that, for the first time in history, past 30-day use of hookah tobacco was higher than past 30-day use of cigarettes among U.S. high school students.
Additionally, about one-third of U.S. college students have smoked tobacco from a hookah and many of those individuals were not previous users of other forms of tobacco.
The study is published in the Journal Public Health Reports.
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Frequency and Prevalence of Hookah Smoking Bubbling Up in Adolescents Than Cigarettes
A substantial and increasing proportion of adolescents seem to be smoking hookahs with enough regularity to create a significant public health concern.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported that, for the first time in history, past 30-day use of hookah tobacco was higher than past 30-day use of cigarettes among U.S. high school students.
Additionally, about one-third of U.S. college students have smoked tobacco from a hookah and many of those individuals were not previous users of other forms of tobacco.
The study is published in the Journal Public Health Reports.
Source: ANI
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