Hookah harm
Hookah, very fashionable in the East, has spread its popularity to other countries. More and more hookah bars are appearing in different cities, and in specialized stores you can buy hookah, tobacco, coals and many other gadgets for home use. But is it as harmless and useful as some claim?
What are the dangers of hookah? 
A lot of people who do not smoke cigarettes claim that the hookah device is safe, it does not contain nicotine, harmful substances and there is no dependence on it. However, this is not entirely true.
Scientists have proven that during a hookah session, less tar enters the body than when smoking cigarettes, but on the other hand, smoke and carbon dioxide enter the human lungs many times more and it lingers 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 packages of hookah tobacco. In 99.9% of cases this is an advertising deception. A pack of tobacco contains about 25 mg of nicotine, the package is enough for 4-5 times, which means there is about 6.5 mg of nicotine per serving. 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, the issue is quite controversial. If you indulge in a hookah once a month, there will be no great harm and there will be no addiction. If you smoke it several times a week, or even daily, then addiction can develop very quickly. In addition, research has proven 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 his nerves and depression.
When smoking a hookah in a hookah bar, cafe, or just in a large group, there is a risk of developing 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 combustion products of tobacco, smoke, and carbon monoxide into their bodies. This is the same as standing next to a person smoking a cigarette; tar and harmful substances still enter the body of a non-smoker.
Among other things, hookah users have a risk of carbon monoxide poisoning. Carbon monoxide interacts more effectively with hemoglobin than oxygen, so this can cause oxygen starvation in the liver, heart, kidneys, brain, and muscles. As a result, blood stops flowing to the organs in the required quantity, blood vessels narrow, and the load on the heart increases significantly. The result is heart disease, respiratory diseases, development cancer diseases and tumors.
Hookah and cigarettes - which is more harmful? 
It is impossible to say which is more harmful - consumption 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 emissions and tar.
Consumption of both can equally likely lead to various organ dysfunctions, cancers and diseases. Cigarette packs indicate that smoking can lead to infertility; it can also occur in a hookah-smoking couple.
Both cigarettes and hookah can become addictive, but breaking the hookah habit is much easier than eliminating cigarettes from your life. However, during the combustion of tobacco in hookahs and cigarettes, benzopyrene is released. It is he who gives development cancer lungs, but besides this, it is also capable of causing a DNA mutation, and they, in turn, are quite capable of being transmitted along the hereditary line to children and grandchildren, and besides, the mutations are very stable.
In the case of a hookah, you can make it less harmful: purchase high-quality tobacco, high-quality natural coal, use disposable mouthpieces, constantly monitor the cleanliness of all components of the hookah itself and do not abuse it.
