Health is one of the biggest wealth a human being could have, being healthy is not something people should take for granted; unfortunately, this day’s most young adults and teenagers choose to do things that could affect their health with or without knowledge. Many people know that Smoking cigarettes, being a drug addict and alcoholic is dangerous. However, most people do not know that smoking hookah is as dangerous as smoking cigarettes. But some people knew that it is harmful and still ignore the effects and smoke it multiple times a day.
Smoking hookah has become a very popular activity among teenagers and young adults. In fact individuals who love to smoke hookah considers smoking hookah as an attractive or cool behavior, they even have some fancy ways of smoking it such as make different kind of shapes out of the hookah smoke. Smoking hookah might be cool, fun or even attractive for some people but, when it comes to the dark side of it, countless scientists and research results has proved that smoking hookah is actually as dangerous as smoking cigarettes. Some scientists and health professionals also have informed that …show more content…
According to "Hookah Smoking and Cancer; Carcinoembryonic Antigen (CEA) levels in exclusive/ ever hookah smokers", is one of the many research results on hookah. As explained in the article, hookah smoking is not a brand new activity, it has been going on since the 19th century. Mostly, it was a "deep-rooted tradition" among the Indo-Pakistan subcontinent. Back then hookah and hookah pipe looks different and it was considers as fancy object. Also it was mostly smoked by kings and classy people. The article shows some pictures that some adults took with fancy hookah pipes. However, "Today, hookah (called narwhale and shisha in other parts of the world) smoking is considered as a global "threat" and an "epidemic" by public health