What are Maya hookahs?
Maya hookah is a water pipe used to smoke specially-made tobacco. The tobacco usually comes in different flavors such as mint, cola, cherry, lemon-lime, coffee, chocolate, coconut, apple, licorice, and other fruity blends. Hookahs are varying in size, shapes and style. The set-up of a typical hookah water pipe includes a bowl for the coal and tobacco, an ashtray to catch the ashes, a hose with a mouthpiece to draw the smoke into and allow it to cool, and a water bowl to cool and humidify the tobacco smoke.
Hookah smoking is generally done in the social gathering, while cigarettes are inhaled by the people on a daily basis. That’s the reason why people believe hookahs are safer than cigarettes.
How many cigarettes are equal than one hour hookahs?
Hookah smoke that you inhale can contain 36 times more tar than cigarette smoke, 15 times the carbon monoxide, and 70% more nicotine than one cigarette.
An hour of hookah tobacco smoking is equal to smoking 40 to 400 cigarettes, depending on frequency of puffing, the depth of inhalation, and how long the hookah session lasts.
Are hookahs safer than cigarettes?
Many people who use hookah believes that hookah smoking is safer than cigarettes because thinking that the tobacco smoke is filtered through water making it cleaner. This is not true, inhaled hookah smoke contains the same toxins as cigarettes smoke such as tar, nicotine, carbon mono-oxide, heavy metals, and other cancer IQ causing chemicals.
Like cigarette smoking, hookah smoking has been associated with the health effects like lung cancer, brain tumor, heart attack and so forth. But, the thing is, if people smoke hookah twice in a month, and inhale cigarettes daily, then the chances of getting harmful effect by cigarettes are higher than hookah. Read More...
