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Posted by on May 19, 2020

 

Chances are you’ve seen a hookah in your life. However, unless you’re a regular at a hookah bar, you’ve probably completely forgotten about it. Do you still think you have never heard of a hookah? Think again Way back. There you are, lying in your bed, while your mother reads the fantastic story of a girl in a land of pure imagination. If you guessed Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, you would be wrong. No, this book was written almost 100 years before Roald Dahl’s Charlie Story. The book (and the subsequent film) that gives children their first glimpse of this curious device is Alice in Wonderland. Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice in Wonderland, wrote about a curious steaming caterpillar. You may remember Sammy Davis, Jr., perched on a giant mushroom, asking young Alice, “Who … are … you?” The device the caterpillar smoked is called a hookah!

Hookahs have been around, in one form or another, for several centuries and their origins generally go back to what is now Turkey. Needing a way to cool the smoke coming out of a tobacco pipe, the Turk developed a way for the smoke to first pass through the water before being inhaled. This cooled the smoke and gave the shisha zubehör its distinctive bubbling sound.

Modern hookahs have evolved in design but still serve the same simplistic function as the hookahs of yesteryear. Tobacco that is smoked in the hookah has also seen evolution and change. Originally, tobaccos would be mixed with molasses or honey and placed in a bowl-like apparatus on top of the hookah. The coals would be applied directly to this mixture, and instead of burning, the tobacco would be heated to the proper temperature to create smoke. Today’s hookah tobacco, commonly known as ‘shisha’, is made with modern components. Tobacco, glycerin, and sugar combine with countless flavors to produce a truly unique smoking experience. Flavors range from fruity apples and oranges to cultural favorites like chewing gum and cola. In fact, there are over 50 flavors available for today’s hookah smokers!

As mentioned above, tobacco is heated rather than burned. Hookah tobacco generally lacks the chemical additives found in cigarettes. In fact, hookah tobacco is generally made up of just tobacco, glycerin, sugar and flavoring. This is a far cry from the almost 600 additives that can be legally added to cigarettes. These additives also transform into other chemicals when burned, a process that occurs every time a cigarette is lit and smoked.

Cigars, another ‘natural smoke’, have long been gourmet smoke among smokers and people in society. They have a “good boy” reputation that makes smoking not socially unpleasant for women, and are generally found in cigar bars and private clubs. For years, cigars have had no real competition, and hookah is poised to beat a significant chunk of the gourmet smoking market.

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