Cigarettes are a common thing and maybe it can be said, cigarettes has become a way of life today. At every turn we see people who are smoking. We have a lot to know what it was cigarettes, the content in cigarettes and the dangers of smoking itself. However, what about the shisha? Most people's perceptions about the shisha is like smoking, but has a flavor that varies and is not dangerous. Is that true? Hmmm let's discuss.
Shisha / Hookah itself comes from the Persian language has meaning goblets. Meaning of the hookah or shisha equally refer to the forms, how to suck, as well as the water content filters.
Many assumed that the content of the water used in the hookah / shisha functions as a filter which filters harmful toxins contained in tobacco shisha (the filtering). No wonder if the habit of sucking the shisha / hookah is also an option for young people today than to smoke cigarettes that contain toxins known to be dangerous. Now many of the café - which already provides a shisha café this as a menu mainstay. Shisha pipe with a unique shape and taste are varied, making people look to take a bite.
But there is a new research which states that the shisha and cigarettes containing tobacco are equally high levels of carbon monoxide so that harm health. Research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association study was indeed only one kind of poisonous gas only. Making it impossible to compare directly the impact of the use sisha with cigarette smoke. [1]
"Even so, this research at least gives a warning to lovers sisha to think twice about sucking the pipe. Enjoying sisha is not a risk-free activity as they think. Its use is really not safe for health, "said study author S. Katharine Hammond, head of the division of environmental health sciences at the University of California, Berkeley.
To prove the content of toxins in sisha, Hammond involving 27 students who used to suck sisha for an hour in three different nights in April 2006. Five other students who did not use the hookah is also involved in research. But they must live together in the room when the students smoked sisha.
Participants are required to be free from sisha during the 84 hours before the research was done. Then, participants inside the vacuum pipe containing water and 10 grams of Al Fakher tobacco is tobacco that is heated mu'assal using charcoal.
Researchers then monitor the content of carbon monoxide on two groups of participants before and after using a machine designed to detect smokers.
Average carbon monoxide in participants reached 42 ppm, much higher than those found in cigarette smokers (17 ppm). Research also found increased levels of carbon monoxide in the room where the participants are sucking the hookah and can even reach the level of adverse environmental health.
Hammond says it can not directly compare the use sisha / hookah with smoking cigarettes, which clearly contains many toxins. In addition, it is still difficult to know exactly what hookah use of forms that can increase the risk of lung disease or heart
"Hookah / sisha probably will not make you lung cancer, but it will affect your health in other ways," he said.
Meanwhile, Thomas Eissenberg, professor of psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University are also researching the use of shisha, said that his research shows that suck sisha for 45 minutes to produce the amount of 36 times more tar than smoking for five minutes. [1]
"Tar containing compound which is a key element of smoke that can cause cancer. Even so it is unclear whether different types of tar in the tar sisha on cigarettes, "he said. (HealthDay News/AC)
Based on the recognition of the Operations Manager Shisha Cafe in Kemang area, Ahmad Sofyan. Of all the visitors, about 80% of them are not the exploiters of their usual cigarettes. [2]
"More than half the audience of Shisha Cafe are women, approximately 80% of visitors were non-smokers," he said.
So we can conclude, most consume shisha are mostly passive smokers. According to them, does not cause shortness of shisha in the chest and can relax the mind with a fragrance. And the problem of who is more dangerous still in question because research based on those above, there is still doubt in statementnya about shisha.
So, if you consume shisha, better regulated consume of shisha. From every other day to once a week. So we still can enjoy a shisha.
Source:
[1] http://www2.kompas.com/ver1/Kesehatan/0801/07/105714.htm
[2] Koran Tempo
