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From BBC Radio’s “HEALTH CHECK” programme, 1 February 2012….
Please listen at http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/p00n4sl8/
WATER PIPE SMOKING
Could the smoking of sweet-smelling tobacco in a water pipe or shisha lead to an epidemic of heart disease?
The water pipe – or shisha – is loaded with sweet-smelling tobacco and usually shared. Water pipes have been around for years, particularly in the Middle East.
But now their popularity is growing, especially amongst teenagers and women – who believe them to be less harmful than cigarettes.
Because the average time spent inhaling smoke is much longer than a cigarette it’s thought that each episode of inhalation can be equivalent to 40 cigarettes.
At the European Society of Cardiology’s meeting at the Saudi Heart Association’s Annual Conference in Riyadh Professor Hani Najm suggested that water pipes are contributing to a time-bomb of heart disease in the Gulf States.
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