SUBSTANTIATION of the RISK of HOOKAH USE by STUDENTS
Abstract
Тhe purpose of this work was to assess the conditions conducive to the development of bad habits (hookah Smoking) and the risk of health disorders amongst the youth, and furthermore, the study of the amount of harmful substances entering the organism of a hookah smoker for 1 minute when smoking.
The questionnaire method with the use of original, author’s electronic test questionnaires for medical and social picture of hookah consumers among young people is applied. The study was held in October 2019. The study involved 254 people, hookah smokers, among them 59 boys and 195 girls.
20 people were assessed the load obtained by the number of puffs, the volume of inhaled hookah smoke, and the duration of one puff in order to substantiate the risk of entering harmful substances, such as nitrosamines, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, volatile aldehydes, benzene, nitrogen oxide, heavy metals, carbon monoxide in hookah smoker’s organism for 1 minute.
It is revealed that not only youth, but also teenagers join hookah smoking. The frequency of hookah Smoking by young people is different: 24, 3% of students smoke hookah every six months, 23, 4% — once a quarter, 30, 9% join the hookah Smoking only once a year, but there was a group of 20.6% out of the surveyed that consumes hookah once a month and more often.
The reasons why teenagers and young people smoke hookah are different: 22, 6% of the respondents search for the opportunity to relax when Smoking hookah, consciously for personal pleasure — 38, 7%, only to support the company — 29, 9%.
On average hookah Smoking consists of 171 puffs of 530 ml with the duration of one puff 3 seconds at a frequency of 2.8 puffs per minute.
The number of potentially dangerous components contained in hookah smoke, which has in its composition nitrosamines, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, volatile aldehydes, benzene, nitric oxide, heavy metals, carbon monoxide, is quite high. This is a risk of health disorders in the young, unformed body of the hookah consumer, but it is also a risk of disturbance of the smoker’s reproductive health, which has further long-term consequences for the future generation.
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