Tobacco Vs Hookah: Analysing The Facts (Part 2)

 Now, we shall take a look at Herbal hookah on the other hand, and try to see the reasons, why it is a much safer and better option. 
The hookah or the Shisha came into being because of health reasons. An Iranian physician at Mughal Emperor Akbar’s (1542 – 1605 AD) court, named Hakim Abu’l-Fath Gīlānī (d. 1588), was the first one to come up with the idea of ‘purifying’ tobacco smoke by passing it through water. The instrument was elaborately decorated and it gradually became popular and was considered to symbolize royal grandeur and tradition.
Ages have passed, and hookah has undergone innumerable changes.
                          Today, herbal hookah is available without tobacco and nicotine in it and it comes in a wide range of flavors and essences. The fruity aroma creates a unique ambience and mood, gives the pleasure of smoking, while, keeping you away from the dangerous effects of tobacco.  The flavors that are popular all over the globe are Peach, Strawberry, Mint, Liquorices, Blackberry, Blueberry, Orange, Raspberry, Vanilla, Rose, white Grapes, Double apple, Sweet melon, Pine apple, Pina colada, Lime, etc. It is basically made of molasses and the flavor for tobacco lovers it would be good news that it has the same feel of regular tobacco, minus the effects. Since it is less hazardous, it is becoming more popular day by day. People who just cannot do without smoking, yet want to make a healthier switch, can try blended flavors of herbal hookah. Hookah in itself is a much less hazardous option than cigarette smoking, because of the water that cools down the smoke, thereby preventing your lungs from getting scorched. Herbal hookah is thus, negligible in its harmful effects.  Today, there are innumerable Hookah bars, established all over in big cities all around the globe. Though the trend originated in Persia and India, today, the youth has taken it up as a safer, healthier and cozier alternative to smoking tobacco. The lounges and cafes have arrangements for herbal hookahs and you can be experimental and try mixing and blending flavors to get new aromatic experiences. Hookah is generally served at comfortable and cozy couches and mattresses, adorned with cushions. You can lazily spend hours socializing and talking to friends, with a hookah to accompany you. The aesthetic quotient of a hookah or a Shisha makes it highly attractive and some hookahs and pipes ate elaborately decorated and are artistically carved out.
                        So, if you looking for a better option, looking for some fun and smoking experience without doing eternal damage to your heart and your lungs, you can try out herbal hookah for sure. They come in a variety of flavors and aromas and you can have an ultimate and mesmerizing experience while being encircled in a cocoon of essential fragrances and aroma.

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Tobacco Vs Hookah: Analysing The Facts (Part 1)

                              Hookah is gaining popularity all over these days. Some like it for its style and artistic quotient, some like it for its cultural significance, some like it because it is less dangerous a threat to the body. Firstly, we shall take a look at the effects of tobacco or nicotine and the reason people get addicted to it. Nicotine reacts with the nervous system, thereby slightly affecting the pleasure centers of the brain. It seems to have a relaxing and exciting effect on people. The greatest threats to the human system, due to smoking are lung cancer, chronic bronchitis and emphysema. Addicts forget or try to neglect the knowledge about the dangers that they are vulnerable to. Following are the most dangerous effects of smoking.
• Cigarettes have a mixture of Carbon monoxide and Nicotine, which raises the blood pressure suddenly, thereby making the smoker feel somewhat elated and perked up. A regular intake of tobacco smoke can strain the blood vessels and the heart. Most smokers do not have the idea about how much damage they are doing to their heart. 
• Tar coats the lungs, just the way soot coats a chimney. A person who smokes 20 cigarettes a day consumes almost a cup of tar that is almost 210 grams of tar in one particular year. The harmful effects of this are beyond imagination.
• Carbon monoxide when enters into your system, mixes in the bloodstream, when actually oxygen should mix with the blood. Therefore your muscles, the limbs and in fact the full system does not receive the amount of oxygen that it needs.
• It gradually eats away at the vitality of the heart and in youngsters, 3 out of every 4 deaths caused by heart diseases are due to tobacco. It causes a deposit of fat, thereby narrowing down the blood vessels, and ultimately leading to a heart attack.
• Smoking during pregnancy can lead to abortion, premature birth, low birth rate, etc. It can be the cause to perennial mortality in humans.
• Tobacco contributes to cancer.
Tobacco is a killer in disguise. It kills one, gradually and very painfully, yet we cannot deny the capacity of it to ease tension, even if it is temporary. People fall prey to the illusionary comfort and relaxation that it provides. By the time they realize that they should check the rate at which they are smoking, they are already addicted. Tobacco smoking kills innumerable people all over the globe each year. It kills without discriminating and giving a second chance.
How is it different from hookah? In our next blog we take a look!

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