By: Natasha Archary
When it comes to smoking, are e-cigarettes like vapes, hubbly or marijuana worse than a cigarette? While cigarettes and cigars have nicotine which is an addictive substance, vapes and hubbly do have nicotine free options.
It’s the nicotine content that can affect many parts of your body, especially the brain. It’s more difficult to quit if you’ve been smoking for years and smoke “like a chimney” (more than a pack a day).
Over time your body and brain become dependent on nicotine, the “head rush” is intoxicating. Once that passes, after the first month or so, you can be sure you’re hooked on it.
With stricter laws around smoking in the country, many are making the decision to quit.
Apart from cigarettes, the decriminalisation of marijuana has meant more people are taking smoking “a joint”.
Although marijuana has some medicinal properties in small doses administered by an alternative practitioner, prolonged use can have adverse side effects too.
The same can be said about e-cigarettes and vapes as well as hubbly bubbly.
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Is smoking hubbly worse than a cigarette?
During the Covid-19 pandemic many African countries banned the use of recreational hubbly bubbly because users often share the mouth piece.
Because hubbly or hookah comes in different flavours and does not have any tobacco like cigarettes, kids as young as 12 and 13 are smoking it.
However, hubbly does contain nicotine in quantities that may be higher than a cigarette and can be equally as addictive.
CANSA reports that hooka smoking has many of the same health risks as cigarette smoking.
The health site reports that water pipe smokers, and second-hand smokers exposed to them, are at risk of developing the same diseases that are caused by cigarette smoking.
It may lead to cancer of the mouth, lungs, and bladder, and even cause heart disease, states CANSA.
The site adds that the charcoal burned in the pipes often produces its own toxins, including high levels of carbon monoxide and cancer-causing chemicals.
Sharing hubbly bubbly is dangerous. According to CANSA, you put yourself at risk of getting the bacteria that cause tuberculosis, as well as the virus that causes herpes. Not to mention COVID-19.
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