Manchester Day

The origin of using shisha ( Shisha means glass gar ) to smoke tobacco is arguable, uncertain and debatable by people smoking a few heads of shishas in shisha lounge.  Many countries claiming the invention like Turkey, India, Syria and Iran and one of the stories is a Doctor in Indian around the year  1500 BC raised health concerns after smoking tobacco became popular among Indian noblemen. He invented a system which allowed smoke to pass through water to be purified. That is what he thought then, and still, many shisha users believe today that the practice of smoking shisha is safe.  This new device for smoking then soon became a status symbol for the Indian aristocracy and gentry.

 

Most popular shisha smoking nowadays use mixed tobacco and fruit flavour which attract new users and future smokers and addicts to the habit and increase the club numbers of smokers,  which make it more dangerous as people think or told they are smoking fruit.

 

What is the origin of the smoking tobacco fruit mix?  The story is that a ship had a cargo of dry fruits and tobacco on board and that ship hit a big rock and sank as it was trying to dock. People from the town where the ship sank collected whatever they could find from the ship wreckage and salvage from the ship cargo including the tobacco and fruits. They dried the fruit and the tobacco. The tobacco, which was found mixed with the fruit and they smoked the tobacco mixed with the fruit in their shishas anyway ( waste not want), The newfound was  a pleasant mixer to smoke and a new  recipe for smoking shisha, which, caught up as a good recipe for the shisha heads  in the other towns and countries . 

The shisha ingredients are not just fruit but fruit and plenty tobacco, fruit alone won't smoke. The shisha ingredients are either tobacco alone or tobacco and fruit mix. The amount of tobacco or the concentrate of tobacco is higher than smoking cigarettes so why shisha is acceptable to smoke without warning as the ones seen on the cigarettes packs and smoking   inside the buildings ( premises ) allowed while cigarettes are not allowed and places that allow people smoking cigarettes  inside usually panelized and subject to financial fine or closure . Shisha smoking danger has not been published intensively as cigarette smoking, the patterns of smoking, the chemistry of the smoke that is inhaled, and health effects suggest that shisha smoking is associated with many of the same risks as cigarette smoking. The smoke that emerges from a shisha head contains numerous toxicants, such as carbon monoxide and heavy metals, known to cause cancers of the mouth, lung, stomach, bladder, and oesophagus as well as heart disease and other diseases. Furthermore, due to the mode of smoking – including frequency of puffing, depth of inhalation, and length of the smoking session – shisha smokers may absorb higher concentrations of the toxins found in cigarette smoke as a typical one-hour shisha smoking session is the equivalent of inhaling the smoke of 100 or more cigarettes.  Also, people usually smoke as much as they can within the time they spend in shisha lounges as they invested a good amount of money in smoking shisha.  These risks are largely unknown and unappreciated by the public and majority of frequent users were more likely to believe that shisha is less harmful than cigarettes. Also, to the consequences of smoking tobacco, Shisha smoking also poses unique health risks. Because smoking sessions at shisha lounges often involve sharing ahead of shisha among multiple individuals, consumers are at increased risk of infectious diseases, such as influenza, herpes, hepatitis, and tuberculosis.

Additionally, the charcoal used to heat the tobacco in the shisha exposes consumers to high levels of carbon monoxide, heavy metals, and cancer-causing chemicals. We are not going in details on how harmful is smoking shisha, which we heard one described it as the sweet poison or poison wrapped in honey and fruits. One can find all about the danger of shisha smoking by searching the internet and it obvious.

There is another negative impact of shisha smoking which going to hit the community in the future as the authorities who issue licences for opening shisha lounges most probably not thought of the implications for NHS when the present and encouraged smokers to suffer from their health in the future. One should not look and think of the present but of the future as if we do not consider the future in our decisions we might not control the future. Given licences for shisha smoking is a short-term benefit for a few people but it will be long-term suffering for people who have been introduced to this heavy smoking habit. Also, it will be a burden on the community and NHS. 

When we talk about the harm to and suffering to the young people in the future, we should not forget the young people working in the shisha lounges probably on minimum wages to serve the shisha smokers. Their job is to provide the costumes with a good shisha and keeping it active and running in good shape all the time by changing the charcoals and inhale the shisha strongly till it is ready to give to the customers. 

 

" If you have been to one of these shishas places you probably have noticed that these workers are doing their job to set the shisha for the costumes by inhaling the shisha deeply for a while to give it a good start. Then they provide fresh charcoal and clean the shisha head ( by taking it out of the shisha set and blow in it from the bottom to clear the holes of the shisha head to keep the customers happy.  The customers also provided with a little plastic pipe tip/attachment to inhale through the mouthpiece to protect them from the transfer of the disease and infection by sharing and sucking the smoke pipe mouthpiece; the workers are not provided with this attachment either. "

 

These young people working in the shisha lounges are they going to be protected against any harm they will have in the future through working in this dangerous and not healthy environment and who is going to pay for their treatment the authorities provided the licences or the owners of the shisha places?

 

Notes :

 

Some have places for shisha outside the buildings and with Manchester weather these places are covered, which cause the smoke moves only horizontally passing everyone on the way to inhale. So It makes no difference if you have the shisha smoking place inside or outside the building the effect will be more or less the same !!!!!

 

Some countries which are considered less advanced than Manchester are taken good measures to stop shisha smoking from preventing to allowing them to open outside the city centre and shisha smokers  have to travel to them to smoke and save other from seeing them and trying them, which is the same principle as covering the cigarettes in the supper markets now  . Cigarets displayed in covered cabinets and smoker can ask for them to buy but not on display all the time for people to see.

 

Most users usually start at young ages 17 to 20, that is why Shisha places popular near universities as this phenomena consider trendy and cool.

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