Shisha, which is similar to the bongs used for smoking marijuana, in recent years are very popular. This is evident from the increasing number of cafes that provide shisha to attract visitors. Shisha is a great way to enjoy Middle Eastern-style cigarettes that use a pipe-shaped goblets and water content as filters.
Many shisha lovers who feel that the shisha smoke is safer than cigarettes because there is a water filter. In fact, some fans feel shisha is not a cigarette. However, research conducted by the UK Department of Health and the Tobacco Control Collaborating Centre refute these assumptions.
According to the researchers, when someone smoked shisha or herbal cigarettes, it breathed the carbon monoxide levels can not be measured. Even within a single session smoking shisha, inhaled carbon monoxide in number from 4 to 5 times more than that produced by a cigarette.
high levels of carbon monoxide can cause brain damage and loss of consciousness. According to the research team, it is rather difficult to determine the amount of carbon monoxide (CO) generated from inhalation of a cigarette because of the differences of each individual.
Even so, levels of CO from the exhaled breath of smokers who are not normally approximately 3 ppm (parts per million from the air), in light smokers approximately 10-20 ppm and 30-40 ppm in heavy smokers.
Research shows, exploiters shisha have 40-70 ppm of CO in the breath. The number of disorders that affect the blood circulation of about 8-12 percent.
“We found that one session of shisha smoke that uses fruit tobacco is 10 milligrams for 30 minutes, or shortest session, producing carbon monoxide levels four or five times higher than smoking,” said Dr. Hilary Wareing, Director of The Tobacco Control Collaborating Centre.
In other words, shisha 400-450 times worse than cigarettes. In addition to high levels of inhaled CO, Qasim Choudhory, workers from NHS Stop Smoking Service, UK, says that the use of shisha pipes in turn could be the spread of infection medium. “There is a risk of contracting TB, herpes, or other infections,” he said