| A hookah is basically a water pipe intended for the | | | | the result is a smoking experience that is ultimately less |
| smoking of tobacco. It is often made of glass with two | | | | expensive and a lot less messy than sharing a couple |
| or more flexible stems drawing the water cooled | | | | of Marlboros. If a couple were smokers, it is easy to |
| smoke from the pipe. It originated in India many | | | | envision the hookah on the coffee table for a private |
| centuries ago, and moved from there into the Middle | | | | evening of movies or conservation. |
| East. Although tobacco was the original substance | | | | This is exactly the thought of some enterprising |
| burned in the hookah, others are also used. Some of | | | | businessmen who have begun to open Hookah bars |
| these others have been illegal substances such as | | | | around the country. These would be regular bars with |
| Cannabis or Opium, and this has tended to give | | | | the exception of a hookah in the middle of every table. |
| hookahs a bad name in Western Culture. In recent | | | | That large selection of fragrant tobacco would be |
| years, the hookah has been making some headway in | | | | available for purchase along with your drinks. The |
| dispelling this bad reputation. One of the attractions of | | | | hookah smoking would supposedly have a calming |
| hookah smoking in the East was the manner in which | | | | effect on the patrons, encourage good talk, and |
| the activity induced relaxation, and stimulated | | | | enhance the entertainment. A Hookah Café |
| conversation. | | | | would be similar except that perhaps food and coffee |
| The Online market has allowed hookahs to be | | | | would be served with the tobacco rather than alcohol. |
| purchased in larger numbers, and the merchants | | | | Which ever approach suits you better, a trip to a |
| generally sell a large variety of flavored and low | | | | Hookah smoking establishment would make a novel |
| nicotine tobacco. The nicotine level is furthered | | | | and very interesting group activity. |
| reduced by the action of the water inside the pipe, and | | | | |