Smoking water pipes can be more harmful than cigarettes. This has been declared by world health experts. A single puff from a water pipe nearly equals the volume of smoke inhaled from an entire cigarette, while one session of "shisha" can equal smoking 20 to 30 cigarettes in one go. To make matters worse, smoke from charcoal used to heat the tobacco contains toxins.
According to the Tobacco Atlas (recently launched in Dubai): "a single puff from a water pipe is nearly equal to the volume of smoke inhaled from an entire cigarette." So even if you choose to smoke hubble bubble only once weekly, you do realize the kind of noxious exposure you'll be experiencing.
Furthermore, inhaling smoke is harmful to the tiny delicate cilia in your lungs that help protect them, by trapping and expelling harmful substances and foreign bodies. This is in addition to the fact that smoke exposure to your oral cavity, gums, larynx, and vocal cords, even if periodic or not too frequent, elevates your risk for malignant changes, and also exerts negative effects on your lung function.
So try to conceive of the consequences that would occur further down at the level of the placenta: if we assume that the above does not happen, smoking by itself causes constrictions (narrowing) of the blood vessels in the placenta, thereby decreasing the supply of blood (including oxygen and nutrients) to the growing fetus. Now imagine smoking arguileh, equivalent to 20-30 cigarettes, and the exponentially higher effects it would exert on the normal function of the placenta.. I am scared at the mere idea of it!!
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