Harmful if hookah health?

Hookah smoking in recent years has gained great - Barry Knishkowy writing from the Ministry of Health of Israel: "This phenomenon is explained by the belief that hookah is less harmful to health than cigarettes. Due to this mistake a lot of Arab and European young people are adherents of the hookah."
Narghile and shisha are practiced in the Middle East for 400 years. Despite the fact that tobacco smoke in the hookah that defies standardization, in general, the nicotine content, hydroxy carbon, tar and heavy metals in it is much more than the cigarette varieties. Since nicotine is respectively 2% - 4% to 1% - 3% in cigarettes, and the concentration of carbon monoxide ranging from 0.34% to 1.40% for the narghile (against 0.41% in cigarette smoke). Therefore, hookah smokers consume large amounts of toxins, as moist tobacco smoke is inhaled more deeply and smoking process may take several hours.
In the body of a hookah lovers higher concentration of carboxyhemoglobin, nicotine, cotinine, arsenic, chromium and lead. The consequences of smoking shisha and cigarettes - are similar: cancer and lung and other cancers, lung function, coronary heart disease, low birth weight of offspring at birth, tobacco dependence. Couples who smoke hookah more likely to suffer from infertility, as well as contributing to the spread of infections hookah such as Helicobacter pylori, pulmonary aspergillosis, a respiratory virus and even HIV. According to many scientists' kalyanokuriteli "continue to begin smoking cigarettes or switching to taking psychotropic drugs.