Argumentative Essay On Smoking

Smoking tobacco using a water pipe, hookah, narghile, shisha, argilla is a global issue especially among adults of young age and adolescents. A water pipe is a stemmed instrument for vaporizing and smoking flavored tobacco in which the vapor or smoke is passed through a water basin which is a glass-based prior to inhalation .

Among adolescents current (water pipe) argilla smoking prevalence is approximately 30% in Estonia , Latvia , and Beirut Lebanon ; 5%–17% of some adolescent populations in the U.S. may be current argilla smokers. Among university students, current argilla tobacco smoking prevalence is 33% in Karachi, Pakistan and 10%–20% in the U.S. Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, New Zealand, and South Africa where availability of data were absent, argilla tobacco smoking’s popularity is demonstrated by businesses that facilitate it in countries .

A WHO report in 2005 disclose that smoking using a argilla poses a serious potential health hazard and is not a harmless substitute to cigarette smoking. Smoking argilla takes a period of 40 minutes or more and it consists of 50 to 200 inhalations that ranges from 0.15 to 0.50 liters of smoke . During a period of one hour argilla users smoke about 100 to 200 times the volume of smoke of a cigarette. The chemical compositions of cigarette smoke and argilla smoke are different, however, as the workings of the charcoal in the modern water pipe causes the tobacco mixture to be heated to a lower temperature, as opposed to the higher temperature in a cigarette where the tobacco is directly burnt. As such the effect of argilla use are estimated to vary .

Despite the different chemical composition of the smoke, it is projected that heavy and long term use of argilla has the possibil...

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...g medical students in Syria in 2008 was 10.9% for cigarettes (15.8% men, 3.3% women), 23.5% for water pipe (30.3% men, 13.4% women) and 7.3% for both (10.1% men, 3.1% women). Smoking were popular among 5th year students (15.4% and 27%) compared to lower levels (6.6% and 19.7%). Cigarette used account for 62%, while occasional use of water pipes 83% .

Use Among Adults in Great Britain, and Factors Associated With Water pipe Use: Data From Cross-sectional Online Surveys in 2012 and 2013, the result shows females had a lower odds of ever using water pipe than males (OR=0.71, 95% CI= 0.63 -0.79, those in the lowest social grade had lower odds of use compared to those in the highest social grade (OR = 0.43, 95% CI = 0.35-0.54), older people were at much lower odds of ever use than younger people, ever having smoked cigarettes increased odds of ever used water pipe .