So do you a friend a family member anyone you may know smoke one of these
some call it shisha others call it hookah and many people
are using it these days as a form of socializing but just how bad is shisha
for our health well we're gonna find out okay so for those of you who may not
know what shisha is or you may have seen it and you're not quite sure where it is
well here it is now to summarize fruit flavoured containing tobacco is placed in
the clay pot and then it's wrapped in foil and placed on top of here charcoal
is then placed on top of it and it heats up the tobacco
now when the smoker inhales from this pipe it creates smoke and it goes into
the users lungs so the question is just how bad is
smoking shisha it is bad as smoking these cigarettes well the short answer
is yes smoking shisha has many of the same health risks as smoking cigarettes
just a quick note because I know a lot of people watching this right now or
think this but what about the water at the bottom doesn't that filter out all
the toxins well I'm just going to bust that myth for you right now because no
it doesn't filter anything studies have shown that that water filters nothing so
remember this the smoke that's produced in shisha is at least as toxic as
cigarette smoke so you are at risk at the same diseases that are associated
with cigarette smoke and if you're now wondering well what diseases is well
don't worry because I'm going to tell you those diseases
oral cancer lung cancer stomach cancer cancer of the oesophagus reduced lung
function and even reduced fertility now generally speaking most people attempt
to smoke shisha socially with friends so the average time spent smoking shisha is
usually about an hour so the question is how much smoke will you be inhaling is
one shisha equivalent to one cigarette and smoke to be quite honest with you
when I read this fact I was really shocked and I think it's going to shock
a lot of you as well so one puff of a shisha so just one inhalation is
equivalent to one cigarette in smoke just imagine that one puff one cigarette
crazy right so that means that for an average shisha session of one hour you
can inhale the same amount of smoke as from 100 cigarettes now studies have
also shown that a typical shisha session has about twenty five cigarettes
worth of tar and eleven cigarettes worth of carbon monoxide and remember
this this even if you're not smoking shisha so you're just socializing with friends
other people are smoking you also put yourself at risk of secondhand smoke so
you're putting your health at risk too now that we know some facts about the
shisha let's actually look at the shisha and
learn a bit more about okay so before we actually look at the shisha I've just
got to make a slight confession I bought this shisha for this video
and it did come with a clay pot thing that goes up here and it contains the
tobacco but I can't find it I've looked everywhere and I can't find it so for
the sake of this video please imagine is a clay pot thing here now the shisha so
in this play pot thing goes tobacco and then they cover it with foil and put
charcoal on the top now this charcoal and foil produce things like carbon
monoxide heavy metals and also cancer-causing chemicals and you inhale
that that all goes into your lungs okay and a common myth as well that many
people will say is that oh it's got water to water that goes in here because
the the air flows from there it goes all the way through here through water and
through the pipe into your lungs now a lot of people think seem to think that
this water filters all of these harmful chemicals and you're left with something
pure and nice that's good for you but in reality studies have shown that this water
doesn't filter anything and another point I'd like to make is about the
shisha pipe itself now please remember this shisha pipe is communal so everyone
smoking this shisha is using this pipe so it spreads loads of infections and one
of the most common infections is actually oral herpes and I'm pretty
sure nobody wants oral herpes also another study that I read not long ago
about smoking shisha is just like smoking cigarettes it
stiffens the arteries and when you stiffen your arteries you're more at
risk of getting clogs in your arteries and heart disease and again nobody wants
heart disease now I do know people that smoke shisha and unfortunately it's
still seen as a less harmful alternative to smoking cigarettes but I really hope
this video has helped made things clear that smoking shisha is harmful for you
so please tell your friends tell your loved ones tell your family tell everyone
because you now know the facts and if you are struggling to quit smoking
shisha or quit smoking cigarettes well the
good news is that the NHS have loads of support and advice for
anybody who's wanting to quit so we'll need more information about this in the
description below please check it out always remember that you're awesome and
I will see you next week this pipe is probably used in a shisha cafe by so
many people and people are inhaling from it and it's all of these diseases being
spread like oral herpes it's really not good for you look at these diseases oral
cancer stomach cancer lung cancer cancer of the esophagus reduce respiratory flow
and even (mumbling) that was a long take took a lot of my breath did that take took my
breath away like shisha hey guys thanks for watching this week's video make sure
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