Hookah's Coming Of Age in America

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, hoseactivity, 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 securingenhancer. With time, however, Hookah became less
the stem into the base as well as the hose and claypopular as cigarettes and cigars became more
bowl into place, shisha is packed into the clay bowlaccommodating.Now as the evils of cigarettes are
with a lit coal atop it, the hose is then used to pull andmore apparent, the hookah is becoming more and
taste the flavorful shisha.The water pipe (hookah) ideamore popular due to its complete lack of tar, water
originated in India. But not fully developed, then it wasfiltration and several other suspected health
only made of coconut shells. When the concept ofadvantages 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 entirelounges, at home, or even on the beach. The recent
Arabian region. Finally reaching Turkey, the hookahpopularity has caught on like a wild fire to the college
took off like a wild fire. There, the Nargila (as they callcommunity. Students find the social environmental
it) became one of the oldest and deeply rootedadvantages of hookah to be more attractive than
traditions in Turkey, hitting its highest point of popularityalcohol or cigarettes previously favored advantages,
during the time of Murat II.It was found fashionable forwith fewer disadvantages e.g. hangover, harsh
upper class women of the 19th and early 20th centurycigarette smoke.
to smoke hookah, many even had themselves