Sleeping is an integral part of human health, both physically and psychologically. That is a given medical fact. When sleeping is deprived or interrupted, it is perhaps then safe to assume it can have an effect to the health of those affected. Whether said effect is adverse or not will depend somehow on the nature of the disturbance.

Snoring is a disturbance. Even in its nascent form, snoring can be symptomatic of a biological condition on the snorer. Nasal allergy, respiratory infection, even tumors or an internal swelling. Anything that hampers the free flow of breathing can result into snoring. The extent of the possibilities that it can develop makes it potentially symptomatic, indicative of something worse.

If and when it is indeed symptomatic, the only ultimate means to stop snoring then is the cure of the main ailment. Anything done to stop snoring that does not take into account the root of the symptoms would not only be temporary, it can also be unhealthy. Unhealthy because when you alleviate the symptom instead of curing the disease, you are actually perpetuating the conditions that cause the ailment.