How many mg of nicotine is in an average hookah session?

Compared to cigarettes.


How many cigarettes of nicotine is it like to go through a hookah session.|||http://www.harmreductionjournal.com/cont鈥?/a>





Study done by independent researches WITHOUT an anti-smoking agenda|||Let me tell you the real truth.


I didn't read the whole WHO thing, cause i've already know what it says.


Sorry, but that's a big bunch of bullcrap. Those websites don't care about your health. They get money from cigarette companies for saying that hookah is unhealthy and worse than cigarettes.


Here are some facts about the nicotine in hookah:


- Nicotine and water are both polar, which means nicotine dissolves in water. 95% MINIMUM of the nicotine stays IN the water. (which means the nicotine which goes into your mouth is 0-5% of the nicotine which is in the smoke before it goes into the water. And i didn't even mention the smoke which deposits in the first quarter of the stem and body of the hookah.


- If a cigarette smoker smokes a hookah, it won't stop his nicotine hunger, he will light 1-2 cigarettes instead of the tasty hookah smoke (which is half steam)


- Hookah tobacco doesn't contain tar. Tar springs from the burning cigarette paper.


- If you smoke a cigar, or some cigarettes, you can see the smoke in the air for minutes, maybe an hour too (and it smells really bad). Hookah smoke disappears a little after you blow it out.


- Cigarettes are nicotine bars and taste bad. Hookah makes you relaxed and tastes wonderful. You can choose your favorite flavor and enjoy it over an hour.


- And most important: You are addicted to cigarettes, but you are enjoying the hookah.|||Mind you, the statistics listed from the WHO study below are an average. If your hookah smoking pattern differers from what they reported you should take that into account. also there was no accounting for whether the tobacco was washed or whether a herbal (sugar cane bagasse for example) blend was used. Also sessions vary wildly from 30minutes to upwards of four hours. Some people wash their tobacco after procuring it which cuts the nicotine and tar content further. Keep that in mind next time you decide to share in the experience!





From FitSugar:





Hookah users tend to inhale far more smoke than cigarette smokers. More smoke means higher levels of nicotine, carbon monoxide, and other nasty chemicals. In a study published by the World Health Organization, they found that an average cigarette smoker took 8 to 12 puffs, and inhaled 0.5 to 0.6 liters of smoke over five to seven minutes. A hookah smoker may take anywhere from 20 to 200 puffs in one night, and each puff equals about one liter of smoke each. That means one hookah smoking session could equate to smoking 40 to 400 cigarettes.





From answerbag:





A 2005 article, "The Latest on Hookahs: What You Don't Know Can Kill You" by Kamlesh Asotra,, describes harmful effects of smoking hookah. The moist tobacco is about "30 percent crude, cut tobacco," she said. In a study on chemicals found in hookah smoke versus cigarette smoke by A. Shih-adeh and R. Saleh in 2005, it was found that in one gram of hookah tobacco, there are 802 mg of tar, 2.96 mg of nicotine and 143 mg of carbon monoxide.





"There is strong evidence that the CO to nicotine ratio in hookah smoke is 50:1, and that for a cigarette smoke is 16:1," the study read.





In another study done at the RIA Reference Laboratory in Lebanon by C. Macaron, Z. Macaron, M.T. Maalouf, N. Macaron, and A. Moore in 1997, it was found that "in a single smoking session using 20 grams of hookah tobacco, the hookah smoker is exposed to several-fold greater quantities of the addictive stimulant nicotine for up to 45 to 60 minutes. That is the equivalent to chain-smoking 15 cigarettes."Fritsch believes that smoking hookah has become a "public health problem." Smoking hookah "stresses lungs and makes it easier to get infections.""People' s attitude about it is dangerous," Fritsch said.





He continued on to say that people who weekend-smoke are practicing to be daily smokers. "People start smoking hookah and end up smoking other products," he said. "The problem is nicotine."The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention list the health effects of smoking hookah on their Web site. Some of these effects include that "a typical 1-hour long hookah smoking session involves inhaling 100 to 200 times the volume of smoke inhaled with a single cigar-ette."





Against some ideas that hookah smoking is less harmful then smoking a cigarette, the DHHS highlights from Barry Knishkowy's and Yona Amitai's article on water-pipe smoking that "while many hookah smokers may consider this practice less harmful than smoking cigarettes, water pipe smoking delivers the addicting drug nicotine and is at least as toxic as cigarette smoke."Jon Fritsch recommends to hookah smokers that they should "stop smoking hookah. There are a lot of health things they can be doing. If they don't start smoking, they will never have to worry and their lives will be drastically different."