Sheesha smoking rate Nationwide !

Sheesha is a water-pipe in which fruit-scented tobacco is burnt using coal, passed through an ornate water vessel and inhaled through a hose. Many of them whom do not smoke enjoys sheesha which comes in various flavor when they socializing. As you know smoking is bad for health and same goes to the sheesha too where research revealed.

It is worse for you than cigarettes. One hour of sheesha is equivalent to smoking about 60 cigarettes. It has more dangerous chemicals, including lead and tar, more nicotine etc. In fact about a hundred times more. Also, it has more carbon monoxide.

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Recently a survey has been carried out by Pakistan Medical Research Council (PMRC), revealed that sheesha is popular among the age group between 20-25 years include college and universities students.

Survey Results of 71 educational institutions :

sheesha smoking’s overall prevalence was 19.7 percent
29.8% male 10.4% female
57.2 percent of young people in these universities started sheesha smoking between the ages of 17 and 18.
Islamabad with the highest smoking rate 28.1%
Peshawar has lowest 11.2 %
engineering institutes housed the highest percentage of sheesha smokers (29 percent)
23.8 percent of students smoked sheesha just for enjoyment. About 12.1 percent smoked in cafes.
around 12.1 percent of students stated that sheesha was less harmful than cigarette smoking.
3.3 percent students believed that smoke was passed through a filter.
The Dangers of Flavoured Tobacco and Shisha

Knowledge regarding sheesha smoking is tremendously low and the majority considers the practice safer than cigarette smoking.

disadvantages — health risks like

1 stained teeth 2. Increased frequency of colds, particularly chest colds and bronchitis
3. Asthma
4. Neuralgia
5. Gastrointestinal difficulties, constipation, diarrhea, and colitis
6. Headaches
7. Nausea
8. Convulsions
9. Leukoflakia (smoker’s patch)
10. Insomnia
11. Heart murmur
12. Buerger’s disease (inflammation of blood vessel linings)
13. Shortness of breath
14. Arthritis
15. Smoker’s hack
16. Nervousness
17. Wrinkles and premature aging
18. Tension
19. Gastric, duodenal, and peptic ulcers
20. Lung cancer
21. Cancer of the lip, tongue, pharynx, larynx, and bladder
22.Emphysema
23.High blood pressure
24. Heart disease
25. Artherosclerosis & arteriosclerosis (thickening and loss of elasticity of the blood vessels with lessened blood flow)
26. Inflammation of the sinus passages
27. Tobacco angina (nicotine angina pectoris)
28. Pneumonia
29. Influenza
30. Pulmonary tuberculosis
31. Tobacco amblyopia
32. impared hearing
33. Decreased sexual activity
34. Mental depression