| A hookah is an elaborate and extravagant water pipe. | | | | photographed with it. Hookah was used as a social |
| At its barest, a hookah consists of a base, stem, hose | | | | activity, much like alcohol or food in other cultures; |
| and clay bowl. A hookah is used to smoke Shisha: | | | | hookah was their social environment creator and |
| flavored tobacco mixed with molasses. After securing | | | | enhancer. With time, however, Hookah became less |
| the stem into the base as well as the hose and clay | | | | popular as cigarettes and cigars became more |
| bowl into place, shisha is packed into the clay bowl | | | | accommodating.Now as the evils of cigarettes are |
| with a lit coal atop it, the hose is then used to pull and | | | | more apparent, the hookah is becoming more and |
| taste the flavorful shisha.The water pipe (hookah) idea | | | | more popular due to its complete lack of tar, water |
| originated in India. But not fully developed, then it was | | | | filtration and several other suspected health |
| only made of coconut shells. When the concept of | | | | advantages over cigarettes. Today hookah is smoked |
| hookah was fully developed it branched off to Iran, | | | | in groups usually no less than 2 at hookah bars, |
| where it then spread fast throughout the entire | | | | lounges, at home, or even on the beach. The recent |
| Arabian region. Finally reaching Turkey, the hookah | | | | popularity has caught on like a wild fire to the college |
| took off like a wild fire. There, the Nargila (as they call | | | | community. Students find the social environmental |
| it) became one of the oldest and deeply rooted | | | | advantages of hookah to be more attractive than |
| traditions in Turkey, hitting its highest point of popularity | | | | alcohol or cigarettes previously favored advantages, |
| during the time of Murat II.It was found fashionable for | | | | with fewer disadvantages e.g. hangover, harsh |
| upper class women of the 19th and early 20th century | | | | cigarette smoke. |
| to smoke hookah, many even had themselves | | | | |