Hookah vs Cigarettes

✅Hookah vs Cigarettes

Very often I hear the saying “Hookah is more harmful than cigarettes”

And I decided to figure it out, and as they say, go a little deeper into the numbers) ⠀

🎋 So, let’s start with the most obvious, In one average cigarette: ⠀

0.5 mg nicotine
0.5 mg resin ⠀

🎋 Until now, we have not found a way to determine how much of this harmful substance is in hookah tobacco, but there are approximate figures: ⠀

From 0.01 to 0.5 mg nicotine per pack (depending on the type of tobacco leaf)

(All tar from tobacco evaporates, so there is none at all, which is a very big plus)

🎋 Now let’s translate everything into numbers:

One cigarette weighs approximately 1g.

This means that the net weight in a pack is 20g.

Therefore, it contains 10mg of nicotine and 10mg of tar.

🎋 I think it is already becoming clearer who wins in this race for harm, but for more confidence: ⠀

50g hookah tobacco – 0.5mg nicotine, no tar ⠀

In the same amount of cigarette tobacco (50g) – 25mg nicotine, 25mg tar ⠀

That is, cigarettes are more than 20 times more harmful (this is not counting the harmfulness of tar) ⠀

🎋 So what gives us such a smokiness, if not tar?

This is the merit of glycerin. In order not to describe what glycerin is, I will simply say that it is used for medical purposes. Or rather, in almost all sedatives. ⠀

🎋 Composition of hookah tobacco:

Tobacco leaf
Sugar syrup or molasses
Flavors
GLYCEROL ⠀

🎋 Now let’s talk about the “Burn and Vape

” process
The phrase “I soar (to smoke) wherever I want, the law is not prohibited” can be used in part in relation to a hookah.

When smoking a cigarette, we see obvious ash at the exit, this is the combustion process that we pass through our lungs.
When smoking a hookah, we get just dry hot tobacco, no ash! So much for “Soar (to smoke)”)) ⠀

🎋 As for the burning of coals, in short, during the research it was found that coconut charcoal not only does not affect the taste of hookah, but is also harmless to the body.

Maybe later I’ll write an article about this))