Smoke poisoning Young people end up with shisha steam in the clinic

Adolescents suffer smoke inhalation during shisha smoking
In Osnabrück, three young people have suffered heavy smoke poisoning while smoking shisha. Two of them had to be taken to a special clinic. Health experts repeatedly warn against the health risks of tobacco use.

Flue gas poisoning due to improper use of a hookah
That smoking is unhealthy, should probably be known to everyone. According to some experts, hookah smoking is especially harmful. It becomes even more dangerous if mistakes are made during handling. That also had to be experienced by three young people in Osnabrück. They suffered from the presumably improper use of a shisha smoke gas poisoning, the police report.

Three young people in Osnabrück have suffered from improper use of shisha smoke inhalation. Two of them had to be treated in a special clinic. (Image: wisanuboonrawd / fotolia.com)

Pressure chamber treatment in a special clinic
Firefighters and police were therefore called late Tuesday evening in the apartment, where they found an 18-year-old young woman and two 16-year-old adolescents. The respiratory tract illnesses were so severe in two patients that they had to be taken to a special clinic in Aachen for a pressure chamber treatment. The third person came to a clinic in Osnabrück.

The fire department carried out carbon monoxide measurements in the apartment; Here could be given the all-clear fast. The police took the investigation to the cause of the alleged accident. In the past, carbon monoxide poisoning by shisha smoking has been reported several times.

smoking is unhealthy
Although the number of adolescent smokers has dropped significantly in recent years, health experts repeatedly warn against the dangers of tobacco use. Among other things, smoking favors twelve types of cancer such as lung cancer, pancreatic cancer and colon cancer, cardiovascular diseases such as heart attack and stroke, arterial diseases such as atherosclerosis (arteriosclerosis) or the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease COPD (smoker's lung). (Ad)