| ext">Everybody seems to have known hookah for | | | | However, the mechanism of hookah, the way it is |
| ages; indeed, many of us have enjoyed a hookah at | | | | smoked, and the basic functioning is still the same old |
| some time in a hookah bar. If not, you might have | | | | classic hookah way. The material that used to heat in |
| possibly forgotten about how a hookah looks and | | | | the old classic hookahs was tobaccos mixed with |
| feels if tried. If you think, you have never seen or heard | | | | molasses or honey which was then placed on the top |
| about a hookah, ask yourself if you read or heard the | | | | of hookah, in a bowl like dish. The hookahs of today |
| story of famous child fiction, Alice in Wonderland. In | | | | use a different form of tobacco, generally known as |
| Alice in Wonderland, the author has mentioned about a | | | | shisha. This tobacco is mixed with glycerin, sugar and a |
| smoking caterpillar. What that caterpillar was smoking | | | | variety of flavors to produce a different taste that is |
| was indeed a hookah. | | | | pleasant and sometimes, even not unhealthy. Usage of |
| What brought this up is the historical presence of | | | | these flavors might sometimes be to produce a fruity |
| hookahs for several centuries. They have been | | | | flavor, sweet flavor, cola flavor, chocolate flavor or |
| present and being enjoyed by the people of all races | | | | many other kinds of flavors. There are countless |
| for hundreds of years in many countries, such as | | | | choices available for flavors in the market, which is real |
| Turkey, India, and Afghanistan etc. Originally, hookah | | | | good news to the regular hookah smokers and for the |
| was invented in Turkey several hundreds years ago. | | | | ones who want to try a hookah for the first time. |
| Its smoking mechanism was also quite interesting. The | | | | Smoking hookah is less unhealthy than smoking other |
| Turkish built a hookah such that the smoke could pass | | | | forms of tobacco, such as cigarettes. This is because |
| through a pipe to the smoker. Before reaching the | | | | of the fact that the hookah tobacco does not contain |
| smoker, smoke was made to get cooled down by | | | | those harmful chemicals that are present in the |
| passing it through water. This passage of smoke | | | | tobacco used in cigarettes. Also, the tobacco is not |
| through water is responsible for producing the bubbling | | | | burnt in the hookahs; it is rather heater which produces |
| sound that comes to your mind when you think of | | | | less harmful smoke. In cigarettes, hundreds of |
| hookah. | | | | chemicals burn to produce the smoke which is not true |
| In the current age, hookahs have developed and | | | | with hookahs; hookahs contain only tobacco, glycerin, |
| gained various shapes and sizes and even, the stuff | | | | sugar and flavors. |
| required for burning to smoke has also seen variations. | | | | |