What are the hazards of Arabic hookah

Arabic hookah originated in present-day India and is currently popular in some Arab countries. It is also an important part of Arab culture and life traditions. Its raw materials are mainly made of fruits, so the nicotine and tar content is relatively low. Of course, it is also a component of tobacco, so long-term smoking of Arabic hookah will still have adverse effects on health, easily induce oral cancer, and easily lead to other tumors.

Various hazards

International Online News: Walking in the streets and alleys of Arab countries, you can see people sitting together in groups of three or five smoking hookahs everywhere. Little do people know that along with the curling green smoke and the strong smell of spices, some soluble chemicals such as ethanol, gasoline and other substances have already entered the smoker's body through the combustion of the honey-made mixture. It is no exaggeration to say that Arabic hookah has become a more dangerous killer than cigarettes.

According to a test result of various Arabic hookah tobacco materials released by the Jordan News Agency on the 2nd, these artificial hookah tobacco materials contain substances such as ether, which are converted into carcinogenic acrylamide during the combustion process, thus leading to oral cancer and lung cancer. The content of this substance is 400 times higher than the carcinogens contained in cigarettes. According to survey data released by the World Health Organization, as many as 4 million people die from smoking every year worldwide, and more than half of them die from hookah smoking.

Dr. Yusuf Nahmet, director of the Department of Chest Diseases at Jordan's Bashir Hospital, said that through investigations of patients with chest diseases, it was confirmed that smoking hookah is closely related to lung disease, bronchitis and other diseases. Smoking hookah not only affects the respiratory system, but also causes damage to the liver, lips, mouth, throat, blood vessels, digestive tract and human immune system. In addition, since people generally take turns smoking hookah, it can easily lead to the occurrence of infectious diseases.

However, despite the various hazards of hookah smoking, the number of people smoking hookahs has continued to increase, especially the sharp increase in the number of young people and women, which is worrying. In this regard, Dr. Nasser, professor of sociology at the University of Jordan, analyzed that this is a way to escape reality. When some men or elderly people in Arab countries encounter problems in life that they cannot solve, they relieve themselves by smoking hookah. Those ignorant young people become "captives" of hookah because they regard it as a sign of maturity.

Historical Development

Arabic hookah originated in India 800 years ago. It is made of coconut shell and diabolo tube and is mainly used to smoke old-fashioned black tobacco. Later, it became popular in Persia. In the Middle East, especially in Turkey and Persia during the Ottoman Empire, hookah was once regarded as "dancing princesses and snakes". Later, it gradually spread to the Arab world (it has a history of 500 years), was carried forward by the Arabs, and became a common way of smoking tobacco among the people.