Smoking Tobacco with a Hookah

By John McCree


A hookah is a device used for smoking flavored tobacco, allowing for purification of the smoke by using a water basin before inhalation. The source of hookahs is in the Middle East, where one can still get the best quality hookahs in the world. Hookahs are constructed in a straightforward way with simple parts.

Structure

The end of the body is submerged in a water jar through which the smoke produced by burning tobacco passes. The smokes comes out of the bottom of the body and is purified by the water and kept in air chamber over the water. Passing smoke through water cools down the temperature of the smoke and makes it more suitable for the lungs, which is an additional positive side effect of purifying smoke with water. On the top left section of the water jar in this diagram is the hose. It is not shown in the diagram, but the length of the hose is approximately one meter. As the smoker puffs on the hose, the purified smoke exits the air chamber and is breathed in by the smoker through the hose. After inhaling, the smoker exhales neat and aromatic smoke. Generally, people smoke hookah while sitting in groups with their close friends on family enjoying their company.

What Do You Smoke Out of a Hookah?

Hookahs are traditionally used to smoke flavorful tobacco often called "shisha". Nowadays these things are used to prepare shisha: tobacco, treacle (uncrystallized syrup produced in refining sugar), honey, sugar, molasses, glycerin, nicotine, dried fruit and distilled water.

Shisha is generally fruit flavor based. But, nowadays most of the popular manufacturers are testing with off-shoots of these fruity tastes, for instance Peaches 'n Cream, or Banana Split.

Adding flavor to tobacco at the time of production has become easy and now one can find a variety of different flavors. The dried tobacco, glycerin, and sweetener can be combined with basically any other ingredients to make unique flavors.

The Original Source of Hookahs

The term "hookah" is derived from the Indian "huqqa", a word that originated around the 1500's when the hookah was first designed by a Persian physician, Abul-Fath Gilani. He designed the hookah to create a mechanism to purify smoke by passing it through water, and thus eliminating the many health threats of smoking. But, it is said that even before he invented it, hookah existed in other regions of Persia. Whatever the case, the recognition of the hookah grew throughout India and Pakistan, westward into Iran, Turkey, and Lebanon. In turkey, the Turkish elite class swiftly grew fond of hookah and thereon it spread in to Lebanon, Syria and into regions of northern Africa. It is now gaining popularity among the rest of the globe.

Throughout its journey, the hookah has picked up a number of additional names:

Nargile (also pronounced Argilee) - Mainly used in Italy, Turkey and Israel

Narguile - used in Spain

Lula (or lulava) - used in Albania, Bosnia, Herzegovina

Sheesha - used in northern African and Arab countries

Qalyan - used in Iran

Karim Khan - used in Russia, Belarus

Chillim - used in Afghanistan and Uzbekistan

Huqqa - used in India and Pakistan

Gudugudaa - used in Maldives

Marra Pipe - used in the UK

I Wish To Buy a Hookah, Where Should I Go?

You can go to a shop in-person to get a hookah or you can buy one on the Internet. Owing to the popularity of hookah, hookah stores and hookah bars have grown in the U.S. It is simple to find a hookah shop near you if you live in a populated urban area in the U.S. Hookahs are gaining acceptance in the U.S., but they are not as popular here as in the Persian Gulf.

In case you are not able to locate a hookah shop or you like to shop from the convenience of your home then you can buy a hookah on the net.

What You Should Know About Health Hazards Before Beginning to Smoke Hookah?

The debate rages on about whether or not hookah smoking is less hazardous than cigarette smoking. Those who are in favor of smoking hookah point out that the smoke that comes from hookah is cleaner since it is purified through water and that the temperature of the smoke is also mild. Detractors say that hookah includes more toxic compounds as compared to cigarettes. It contains compounds just like tar, carbonmonoxide and heavy metals. Another factor is that a hookah session may last as long as 1 hour and sometimes even longer while a cigarette goes for just 3-4 minutes. On the other hand hookah seems to be less addictive in comparison with cigarettes.




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