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