Currently, pipe smoking is considered not so much a bad habit as a status indicator that reflects the position of the pipe smoker in society. Based on the fact that real tobacco is not a cheap thing, one can judge the income of the owner of the pipe: only a person who does not have financial difficulties is able to afford such a luxury. That is why pipe smoking is perceived more as part of the image, and not as a source of harm to the health of others, and even your own.
Despite the fact that now the issue of the harmfulness of smoking is not given as much attention to pipes as simple cigarettes, in the old days it was forbidden to smoke a pipe, and smokers were severely punished. In some countries, pipe smoking was considered a demonic affair, so it was not only condemned, but also prosecuted by law. For example, in the West - in Portugal and Spain - those who smoked a pipe were sent to prison. In the East, smokers were even worse, because they poured lead into their throats, and in Russia they could flog a smoker, send them to Siberia or even decapitate. However, less dependent on the tube still did not become. And subsequently England recognized tobacco, because it was a source of its income, coming from the colonies of North America.
As already noted, today the question of the dangers of smoking a pipe is practically not raised, but it’s worth considering, maybe this wasn’t the best human habit for so long been banned? Smoking a pipe, the harm from which is the formation of smoke containing harmful toxic substances, which is dangerous for others, has a very negative effect on the entire body of the smoker as a whole. It has been proven that tobacco dependence leads to problems with the cardiovascular, as well as the digestive and genitourinary systems, and these problems are no less than those caused by smoking regular cigarettes.
The conclusions that smoking a pipe causes irreparable harm to health are not exclusively theoretical. Despite the fact that there is no accurate statistics on how many percent of the population is addicted to pipe smoking, American scientists have conducted enough research among smokers in the upper classes of society. Representatives of American medicine examined the likelihood of oncological diseases, depending on the habit of regularly smoking a pipe. During the study, they found that tobacco for pipes leads not only to the high probability of cancer, but also to diseases of the cardiovascular system.
A detailed study of the influence of "elite" smoking was carried out not only by American scientists, but also by scientists from Italy, who found that the use of a pipe is directly related to the occurrence of cancer and disruption of the cardiovascular system. Among other things, Italian scientists have identified nine types of cancerous tumors that can develop due to excessive pipe smoking.
Therefore, it is necessary to conclude that tobacco, regardless of the form in which it is smoked, is equally harmful to human health. Whether a person uses a pipe or smokes ordinary cigarettes, he is engaged in nothing more than the destruction of his own health, as well as the health of his loved ones, who are forced to inhale harmful tobacco smoke. And precisely for this reason, you need to think about whether the tube is able to emphasize status better than commitment to a healthy lifestyle. And if it is not immediately possible to quit smoking, then you should pay attention to such an alternative to a pipe as an electronic cigarette, or use other medical methods for quitting smoking.