Is Smoking Hookah Better Than Smoking Cigarettes?
Many people have though that smoking hookah is safer than smoking cigarette because the bowl contain water to filter to it. In reality though this is not the case. The tobacco that is especially made for such instrument is not less harmful than that of cigarettes. If it is actually thought all the way through in one hookah session you inhale more than one cigarette because of the amount of smoke and the duration of each session. The ingredients in the hookah smoke contains exactly the same as the smoke of cigarette such as carbon monoxide, tar and other things that can cause cancer. It has be proven as well as the nicotine in hookah has led to an addiction that could potentially lead to create a dependence on tobacco. A study funded by the National Institutes of Health reports a single hookah session delivers 1.7 times the nicotine, 6.5 times the carbon monoxide and 46.4 times the tar of a single cigarette.
Another example of a great study done by the World Health Organization found that between the smoking of cigarette the average person will take about 8 to 12 puffs which is inhaling about half a liter of smoke. It takes about the average person to finish a cigarette about five to seven minutes. On the other hand, a hookah smoker will inhale about a liter of smoke which equal about 20 to 200 puffs. The time is takes to finish one smoking session one might have smoked about 40 to 400 cigarettes.
here is a link to smoking and hookah
http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/quit-smoking/expert-answers/hookah/faq-20057920
http://prevention.gwu.edu/cigarettes-vs-hookah