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Hookah smoking is worse for you than smoking a half a pack of cigarettes a day, a new study suggests.
The study was published in March in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.
The researchers used 13 subjects who smoked from water pipes three times a day, and also smoked about 11 cigarettes a day.
That might sound like a lot, but if you think of a college student with a hookah in their home, three smoking sessions a day seems pretty possible.
The participants were instructed to only smoke hookah for four days of the study, and a week later, to only smoke cigarettes. The researchers studied chemicals in their pee and breath.
They found that the water pipes delivered more dangerous chemicals than cigarette smoking. According to Science News:
Urine tests revealed that the volunteers had higher benzene levels when smoking hookahs than when smoking cigarettes. Benzene inhalation is associated with leukemia and lung cancer. The volunteers’ tests also showed higher levels of pyrene, a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon or PAH, when smoking the hookah. Similar amounts of the probable human carcinogen acrylamide and the PAH phenanthrene showed up during cigarette or hookah smoking. Exposure to PAHs is linked to cancer and immune problems.
More: http://www.businessinsider.com/hookah-is…z2Rc1l5MU2
2013-04-26 18:45:13
Source: http://yeoldefalseflag.com/thread-smoking-hookah-is-terrible-for-you