Hospitality

In India, where the pipe originated, the hookah smoking is done by many people. The smoking of “herbal molasses” is popular because it is thought to be less harmful than tobacco water pipe. Herbal molasses is a mixture of sugar, including fruit extracts. Others called this shisha.

A hookah (or shisha pipe) consists basically of four parts:

- Tobacco bowl: Here is where the smoke;

- Metal shaft: it runs from within the tobacco bowl into the glass container, just below the water level;

- Glass tank: filled with liquid (usually water, but alcohol can also be done for a double effect);

- Hose: flexible hose nozzle so that the smoke is sucked.

The glass container should be filled with water, and where the metal shaft about 2 inches under water. In the bowl of tobacco smoke where it stops then it is covered with aluminum foil in which holes are pierced, and then it puts it on a burning ember. By now the nozzle creates vacuum to suck up the liquid. This is the fluid surrounding air is sucked through the bowl. Condition is that the jug perfectly airtight to avoid diluting the smoke or not under pressure. The burning coal or a piece of charcoal, or a tablet made of charcoal meal that very quickly can be ignited. A tablet generally has a diameter of 33 mm.