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Hookah and Electronic cigarettes - dangers of alternative smoking.

Who would have thought that inhalations can not only heal, but also entertain. Hookah was invented according to the principle of inhalation in the old days, and modern electronic cigarettes have acquired characteristics that combine hookah and tobacco smoking.

Tobacco smokers who want to get rid of their bad habit are looking for alternative ways to smoke, but with harmless health effects.

Is hookah smoking so harmless, and does it make sense to switch to smoking an electronic cigarette (e-cigarettes)?

Hookah is a device that allows you to filter vapors of a smoking substance, which is why it has gained popularity among smokers who consider hookah smoke harmless. To a certain extent, they are right, since the hookah device allows the vapors of the smoking substance to pass through the water (poured into the vessel), and the smoker eventually inhales not the pure smoke of the smoking substance, but a mixture of water vapor with this smoke. Thus, a water filter is created, some of the harmful components are deposited in the water and the concentration of toxic substances in hookah smoke is reduced. But the hookah can also be used for smoking tobacco or intoxicating herbs, which puts it on a par with harmful smoking devices.

An electronic cigarette is a small nebulizer. It can be filled with any liquid substance (or rather a mixture of a smoking substance with glycerin), which, in contact with a heating element (vaporizer) located inside an electronic cigarette, is converted into steam. Glycerin vapors mixed with a concentrate of smoking substance are less toxic than tobacco smoke, but the composition of smoking mixtures for an electronic cigarette can also contain an extract from tobacco leaves, which devalues the effectiveness of an electronic cigarette as a device for alternative harmless smoking.

Smoking a hookah and an e-cigarette will not get rid of the habit of smoking, it will only change smoking preferences, but there is always a risk to return to smoking again, but through special smoking devices.