While for ten years tobacco consumption has declined by 33% in the United States among adolescents, the use of hookah has taken over. That’s the conclusion of the study to appear in the August issue of the journal Pediatrics.
More specifically, the number of smokers of water pipes, with sweet and sweet scents, has exploded by 123%. Of 5540 adolescents surveyed in the United States, one in five said they had smoked shisha at least once in the past twelve months.
Last year, a report from the U.S. Center for Disease prevention and control, said 58% of U.S. teens believe shisha poses less of a health risk to their health than cigarettes. A worrying figure when we know that specialists all agree that shisha would have much more consequences harmful to health (bronchial carcinoma, cancer of the lung, mouth, bladder). Longer puffs would in particular absorb more toxic products.
Young city dwellers and from privileged socio-professional categories
The researchers found that the use of shisha was more widespread in the city than in the countryside and concerned adolescents from privileged socio-professional categories. The study also shows that teenagers who have already consumed alcohol and marijuana are more inclined to smoke shisha. A true tradition in the Maghreb countries, researchers observe that the consumption of shisha by American teenagers is akin to a ritual, to a social activity.
In France, since January 01st 2007 andno smoking in public places, hookah bars are prohibited. Many try to circumvent the law by setting up a cultural association, but in 2012, a hookah bar manager was convicted by the Dijon Court of Appeal for breach of the law. anti-smoking law. The recent marketing of hookah pens, similar to e-cigarettes, could make its use even more common …