Sheesha smoking a hit with teens,Experts say sheesha is more harmful than cigarettes even as smokers believe that tobacco used in sheesha is herbal and does not affect health."The tobacco used for sheesha smoking contains two to four per cent nicotine as opposed to the one to three per cent in cigarettes. A sheesha smoker would inhale as much smoke during one session as the cigarette smoker would inhale when he smokes 100 or more cigarettes," Shazali Manzoor, a pulmonologist at a leading local hospital said.Apart from the usual health scares, a sheesha pipe could be a carrier of other lethal bacteria and it is not uncommon to contract Tuberculosis, flu and meningitis by sharing the same pipe.
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