Hookah harm
Hookah, very fashionable in the East, has reached other countries with its popularity. More and more hookah bars appear in different cities, and in specialized stores you can buy hookah, tobacco, coal and many more lotions for home use. But is it as harmless and useful as some claim?
What is the harm of a hookah 
A lot of people who do not smoke cigarettes claim that a hookah device is safe, it does not contain nicotine, harmful substances and there is no dependence on it. However, this is not quite true.
Scientists have proven that less resin gets into the body during a hookah session than when smoking cigarettes, but on the other hand, many times more smoke and carbon dioxide enter the human lungs and it stays there for a long time. This is despite the fact that a cigarette is smoked in a couple of minutes, and a session of smoking hookah tobacco lasts from half an hour to 1.5 hours.
Manufacturers write “0% nicotine” on many packs of hookah tobacco. In 99.9% of cases, this is an advertising fraudulent move. A pack of tobacco contains about 25 mg of nicotine, the pack is enough for 4-5 times, which means that a portion contains about 6.5 mg of nicotine. And in one cigarette there is only 0.8 mg, in the end it turns out that when using a hookah, nicotine enters the human body many times more. 
As for addiction, this is a controversial issue. If you indulge in hookah once a month, then there will be no great harm and addiction will not arise. If you smoke it several times a week, or even daily, then addiction can develop very quickly. In addition, studies have shown that with frequent hookah smoking, in a stressful situation, if a person does not have a hookah nearby, he can acquire another bad habit - smoking cigarettes to calm the nerves and depression.
When lighting a hookah in a hookah bar, cafe or just in a large company, there is a risk of earning infectious diseases: flu, hepatitis B, tuberculosis, herpes and many other unpleasant things.
In a room where people indulge in hookah, non-smokers can also get harmful products of tobacco combustion, smoke, carbon monoxide into their bodies. This is the same as standing next to a person who smokes a cigarette, tar and harmful substances still enter the body of a non-smoker.
Among other things, hookah consumers have a likelihood of carbon monoxide poisoning. Carbon monoxide interacts more efficiently with hemoglobin than oxygen, therefore, because of this, oxygen starvation can occur in the liver, heart, kidneys, brain, muscles. As a result, the blood ceases to enter the organs in the required amount, the blood vessels narrow, the load on the heart increases significantly. Bottom line - heart disease, respiratory disease, development cancer and tumors.
Hookah and cigarettes - which is more harmful 
This is not to say that consumption is more harmful cigarettes or hookah. They are to some extent the same. It has already been written above that there is much more nicotine in a hookah than in cigarettes, but there is less harmful secretions and tar.
The use of both can equally likely lead to various organ dysfunctions, cancerous tumors and diseases. The cigarette packs indicate that smoking can lead to infertility, it can also occur in a couple who smoke hookah.
Both cigarettes and hookahs can develop addiction, but breaking the habit of smoking hookah is much easier than removing cigarettes from your life. However, in the process of burning tobacco in hookahs and cigarettes, benzopyrene is released. It is he who gives development cancer lungs, but besides this, it is still capable of causing DNA mutations, and they, in turn, are quite capable of being inherited through the hereditary line to children and grandchildren, besides, mutations are very stable.
In the case of a hookah, you can make it less harmful: buy high-quality tobacco, high-quality natural coal, use disposable mouthpieces, constantly monitor the cleanliness of all components of the hookah itself and not abuse it.
