What are the adverse effects of smoking a hookah on a daily basis?

 

The question suggests that your father has a habit of smoking hookah on a daily basis and his friends and acquaintance are a partner in his routine, and you are worried to know the side-effects of the tobacco smoking.

Smoking hookah has numerous side effects because hookah smoke includes 4000 chemical materials, most of which are produced during the burning process and are combined with more than 40 carcinogenic materials. It is evident that smoking hookah is associated with significant problems such as cancer, cardiovascular diseases, and addiction to nicotine.

Your father has started smoking waterpipe tobacco (hookah) on a regular basis as people usually sit together after work and discuss the day while sharing the hookah pipe. The most common reasons for individuals’ inclination to smoke hookah were positive viewpoints toward smoking hookah, wrong beliefs about its low risks, presumed lack of addiction, social acceptance, ease of access, wrong cultural habits, and regulative weakness. Therefore, the harmful effects of hookah smoking were not mainly recognised by users or usually were considered less.

You can educate your father and his friends about the adverse effects and the myth associated in favour of smoking hookah by showing this video.