Visitors Now:
Total Visits:
Total Stories:
Profile image
By Ye Olde False Flag
Contributor profile | More stories
Story Views

Now:
Last Hour:
Last 24 Hours:
Total:

Smoking Hookah Is Terrible For You

Friday, April 26, 2013 18:51
% of readers think this story is Fact. Add your two cents.

(Before It's News)

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



Source:

Report abuse

Comments

Your Comments
Question   Razz  Sad   Evil  Exclaim  Smile  Redface  Biggrin  Surprised  Eek   Confused   Cool  LOL   Mad   Twisted  Rolleyes   Wink  Idea  Arrow  Neutral  Cry   Mr. Green

Top Stories
Recent Stories

Register

Newsletter

Email this story
Email this story

If you really want to ban this commenter, please write down the reason:

If you really want to disable all recommended stories, click on OK button. After that, you will be redirect to your options page.