What Is a Hookah?
by Hookah John
A hookah is a device for smoking flavorful tobacco, allowing for purification of the smoke through 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 basic parts.
Parts
Basically, smoke generated from the burning tobacco is passed down via the body, the end of which is submerged in the water jar. The smokes comes out of the bottom of the body and is purified by the water and kept in air chamber above the water. An additional positive side effect of the smoke going through the water is that it is cooled to a temperature more comfortable for the lungs. The hose is located on the top left section of the water jar. It isn't shown in the picture, but the length of the hose is about one meter. As the smoker puffs on the hose, the purified smoke exits the air chamber and is inhaled by the smoker from the hose. After inhaling, the smoker exhales clean and aromatic smoke. Generally, people smoke hookah while sitting in groups with their friends on family enjoying their company.
What Do You Inhale from a Hookah?
Hookahs are traditionally used to smoke flavored tobacco referred to as "shisha". Modern-day shisha is made up of some or all of the following: 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, flavors that are offshoots of these fruity favors like Banana split are now rising in popularity.
Adding flavor to tobacco at the time of production has become easy and now there are a variety of different flavors. Unique flavors are made because basically every ingredient can be combined in dried, tobacco, glycerin and sweetener.
Where Did Hookahs Originate From?
The word "hookah" is derived from the Indian "huqqa", a word that originated around the 1500's when the hookah was first introduced by a Persian physician, Abul-Fath Gilani. He invented the hookah in order to create a mechanism to purify smoke by passing it through water, and so eliminating the many health risks of smoking. However, it is conflicted, because some people say that hookah already existed in areas of Persia before Abul-Fath Gilani built it. After it become popular in Indian it spread all through Pakistan and Turkey. After the hookah arrived at Turkey, its fame surged in the Turkish elite, and it quickly spread through Lebanon and Syria to the remaining Middle East and into northern Africa. Nowadays, it is being used in nearly every country of the globe.
Through its journey, the hookah has gathered several additional names:
Nargile (also pronounced Argilee) - Generally used in Mediterranean countries
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
Where Can You Purchase A Hookah?
Hookahs can be bought in brick and mortar shops as well as from online shops. Hookah shops have grown with the rise in popularity of hookah bars across the U.S. since the turn of the century. You can easily find a hookah shop close to you if you live in a populated urban area in the U.S. In the Mediterranean countries and the Persian Gulf, hookahs have grown to be a part of daily lives of individuals. However, this is not the case in the U.S.
If you don't want to wander around looking for a hookah, then you a buy one on the web from a number of shops online that offer good quality hookahs and shishas.
What You Should Know About Health Hazards Before Starting to Smoke Hookah?
There is a lot of debate about whether smoking hookah is less dangerous than cigarette or not. While inhaling any sort of smoke into your lungs poses a specific degree of risk, hookah lovers claim that hookah smoking is less hazardous as the smoke is cleaner and more purified than cigarette smoke. On the other hand, the people against hookah mention that it has all of the dangerous and cancer causing chemicals used in cigarettes. Another argument is that hookah smoking sessions last 60 minutes or longer, so the amount of smoke breathed in is way greater than cigarette smoking. On the other hand, hookah smoking is considered to be less addictive than cigarettes, and lots of hookah smokers do it on a far more casual or social basis, instead of many cigarette smokers who typically smoke multiple cigarettes each day.
The trend of smoking hookah is becoming very popular all across the world. You can buy a hookah for yourself and enjoy it after a long hectic schedule everyday or you can go to a hookah bar to <a href="http://hookahjoe.wordpress.com/2012/11/22/smoking-tobacco-with-a-hookah/">enjoy hookah</a> occasionally.
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