Everything you want to know about smoking pipes


Hookah Tobacco

The tobacco used in hookahs is different thancharcoal. Rather than being lit directly, the
that associated with cigarettes, or, indeed,tobacco is heated with a coal placed on
any other form of smoking. It is,tinfoil or wire mesh above or in the bowl
traditionally, a damp blend--called tobamelholding the damp mixture. Each bowl of this
or maassel--of fresh tobacco leaves withwet tobacco lasts a long time, usually
molasses or honey and semi-dried fruit orrequiring several replenishments of the
fruit pulp. Some smokers would addcharcoal. In the past, among those rituals
pomegranate juice or perhaps rose oil to theand traditions surrounding the lighting and
water, which added flavor to the smoke.smoking of the hookah, or narghile, were
Later, hookah tobacco was also mixed withstrict prohibitions against lighting the
fruit extracts, and in the 1980s tobacconiststobacco incorrectly--or even allowing a
began experimenting with various flavors, socigarette smoker to light their cigarette off
that now a virtual smorgasbord of highlyof the hookah coal.Hookah tobacco is
aromatic  hookah tobacco is widely available.generally only 30 percent tobacco and 70
percent fruit flavoring and molasses or
While some hookah smokers still prefer ahoney. It contains .05 percent nicotine and
strong Turkish tobacco, many delight in themost types contain no tar. Because the
large assortment of flavored tobaccos, oftentobacco is heated, rather than actually
called shisha. The dark, wet mixture comes inburned, studies have shown that there are
flavors ranging from apple, cherry, apricot,fewer carcinogens produced in hookah smoke
and watermelon, to rose, jasmine, vanilla,than in other forms of smoking. However,
honey, and licorice, with more exotic blendsconcerns about the length of time smokers
beyond that, such as lemon-cola, cappuccino,generally spend around a bowl of hookah
apple-mint, and a list of custom blends thattobacco do warrant consideration, and studies
is nigh on infinite.Prices for packagedhave shown that carbon dioxide intake is
tobacco range anywhere from $4 to $17actually higher in hookah smoking. Though
depending on quality, and a variety pack ofmellower and less carcinogenic, hookah
flavors might cost about $30. The price intobacco is still tobacco and the health risks
most lounges for a bowl of hookah tobaccoremain. Hookah tobacco should only be smoked
ranges from $4 to $9 for slower burning leafby adults over 18 years of age, and then
or custom blends.Since hookah tobacco is verysmoked in moderation.
wet it must be smoked using a hookah



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