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Doctors and engineers decided to test whether such belief is true. To do this they developed a special apparatus consisting of a cylinder whose volume corresponds to the human lung, and move inside the piston, simulating inhalation and exhalation of tobacco smoke. The device is designed in such a way that after a full cycle of the piston in it is just enough smoke, what settles in the lungs of a smoker. This smoke, in turn, subjected to physical and chemical analysis.

In this case the scientists had to spend a lot of time watching the hookah smokers to find out how much time is spent on smoking, and how long delayed smoke in the lungs after a delay. All these data have been processed and entered into a computer that controls the apparatus that simulates smoking a hookah. First, it was found that the consumption of 25 grams of tobacco through a hookah is equivalent to smoking 60 cigarettes. That is the usual portion of hookah smoking tobacco does no less damage than three packs of cigarettes.

Scientists have found that the temperature of smoldering coal and smoke in hookahs is more than 450 degrees Celsius, therefore, passing through the water, the smoke does not have time to cool to a safe temperature. Another bad news for lovers of shisha was the conclusion of scientists that the constant inhalation of 500-600 cubic centimeters of smoke leads to a loss of elasticity of the lungs, resulting in growing and lose their ability to effectively get rid of harmful substances.