Sheesh! 5 Interesting Facts About Shisha
Many people believe that smoking shisha is safer than smoking cigarettes. This is wrong.
Shisha smoke contains the same chemicals found in cigarette smoke, including tar, nicotine and carbon monoxide. There are also other cancer-causing chemicals similar to cigarettes.Â
…doesn’t mean it’s healthy. It’s still tobacco smoke!
…it’s not safer than tobacco shisha. Both types of shisha are smoked by burning charcoal and inhaling the smoke.
This smoke includes carbon monoxide and benzene, which are both toxic chemicals and are very bad for your health.
Most shisha smokers believe that they can’t get addicted to shisha. Although most tend to use it less often than people who smoke cigarettes every day, it’s still possible to get addicted, depending on how often you smoke it.
Shisha tobacco contains nicotine just like cigarettes do, so it can become addictive too.
is the same as inhaling up to 200 times the volume of smoke in one cigarette.
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