Smoking Tobacco using Waterpipe is as dangerous as Cigarette Smoking
- Friday, December 4, 2009, 8:12
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A new research shows that smoking tobacco using Waterpipe is very much dangerous and is similar to cigarette smoking. It exposes the users to the same toxicants namely carbon monoxide and nicotine. This leads to nicotine addiction and makes user more prone to heart diseases and cancer.
Most of the waterpipe users think that smoking tobacco through waterpipes does not cause that harm which is caused by smoking cigarette but the fact is that it delivers the same amount of tar and nicotine that is liberated by smoking cigarettes.
According to the results of the research done by a Virgina Commonwealth Universtiy, it reports that the results have strong scientific evidence to prove it and it has requested the doctors and health physicians to inform the users of the waterpipe and they need to educate them regarding the harmful nicotine addiction into the body and making body susceptible to cardiovascular diseases.
One of the famous American University conducted a trial in which two individuals participated where one used waterpipe tobacco smoking and the other a cigarette. After a while they measured the amount of nicotine and carbon monoxide in their blood, they also measured their heart rate, puff volume and the puff number.
They got a stunning result that the amount of carbon monoxide present in the blood of the participant who used water pipe for smoking tobacco was more than the participant who used cigarette. The carbon monoxide level that was bound to the red blood cells in the water pipe user was found to be as much as thrice the cigarette user. But, they did not find the difference in the nicotine level in both the users.
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