Contents:
- Medical Video: Dangers of e-cigarettes, vaping and JUULs: How to talk to kids
- Is shisha better?
- Is electric cigarettes better?
- So, choose shisha or e-cigarettes?
Medical Video: Dangers of e-cigarettes, vaping and JUULs: How to talk to kids
Are you a smoker? Want to stop smoking by replacing it with other products that contain nicotine, such as shisha or even e-cigarettes (vape)? Maybe you often hear that shisha and vape are no more dangerous than ordinary cigarettes. Yes, many people switch from ordinary cigarettes to shisha or e-cigarettes because they think they are better than ordinary cigarettes. Is this true? When compared to shisha and electric cigarettes, which one is better?
Is shisha better?
Shisha is used by sucking, like electric cigarettes. The difference is that shisha requires pipes with smoke chambers, shisha fluids, and hoses. This shisha liquid contains tobacco with a variety of flavors. To use it, shisha liquid is heated first using charcoal, then the smoke produced from the combustion will suction out through a rubber hose, you exhale and emit a lot of smoke. More or less, this is the same as when you smoke, where you burn tobacco in ordinary cigarettes.
However, when you use shisha, you actually inhale more tobacco smoke that contains nicotine. Shisha produces more smoke, which is certainly more you suck, than just a cigarette or electric cigarette that you suck on yourself. According to the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), in one hour you inhale shisha, you just breathe in smoke from 200 ordinary cigarettes. Meanwhile, the amount of smoke that is inhaled in one shisha is around 90,000 ml, compared to ordinary cigarettes whose smoke you breathe is 500-600 ml.
After all, you usually enjoy shisha with your friends in a room full of smoke and for a long time. Imagine all the smoke in the room produced by shisha that you and your friends enjoy then you breathe in and enter your body. How much smoke has entered your body?
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In addition, there have been many studies that show the dangers of shisha. Some of them are:
- Smoke from shisha contains high levels of toxic substances, such as tar, carbon monoxide, heavy metals, and carcinogens (causing cancer). Charcoal used to heat tobacco can increase health risks by producing carbon monoxide, heavy metals, and high carcinogens.
- Shisha is also associated with lung cancer, oral cancer, heart disease, and others.
- You might think that water on shisha can filter out toxic substances in tobacco smoke, but it turns out your assumption is again wrong. Water does not filter out these toxic substances.
- Shisha can also cause nicotine dependence.
- Shisha pipes can be a tool for the spread of infectious diseases
Is electric cigarettes better?
Electric cigarettes and shisha may have something in common, namely having the same taste that makes you interested in trying it. However, both of them turned out differently. Electric cigarettes do not experience the process of burning tobacco and do not need charcoal to burn it, while shisha need it. In addition, electric cigarettes also produce water vapor, not smoke, produced by heating devices.
Because e-cigarettes do not use the process of burning tobacco like regular shisha or cigarettes, it can be said that e-cigarettes are safer than regular shisha or cigarettes. However, still the use of e-cigarettes is not really safe, especially in the long term.
Steam water produced by e-cigarettes contains substances, such as nicotine, which can endanger your health. The danger is again, the nicotine content in an electric cigarette product can vary, ranging from 0-100 mg / ml, even if the number is not included. The higher the level of nicotine, the more dangerous your health will be.
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Research has shown that the use of electric cigarettes has been proven to damage lung tissue. In addition, electric cigarettes can also cause interference with brain development in young users. Children can also experience poisoning from swallowing, inhaling, or absorbing water vapor produced by e-cigarettes.
So, choose shisha or e-cigarettes?
If there have been people who have told you that shisha is better than ordinary cigarettes, then you are actually being lied to. Shisha can turn out to be worse than ordinary cigarettes and can more harm your health. Even though you don't use shisha often than regular cigarettes, in one shisha you can be exposed to tobacco smoke many times more.
Meanwhile, electric cigarettes may be safer than regular shisha or cigarettes. However, its use too often is not good for your health, especially for those of you who are still young. Actually, e-cigarettes are produced to help you reduce nicotine dependence.
However, a study has proven that shisha and electric cigarettes can both cause heart disease. Professor Joep Perk from the European Society of Cardiology said that the use of products containing nicotine, both on shisha and e-cigarettes, is not good for your health.
So, you should stop from this habit if you love your body. If you want to quit smoking with the help of e-cigarettes, you should look for other healthier alternatives. You can practice reducing your smoking habits with the help of others, candy or gum for example.
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