8/14/11


Hookah tobacco


Tobacco used with hookahs are different from the ones associated to cigarrettes,  or indeed any other smoking method.  Hookah tobacco is, traditionally, a wet mixture composed by fresh tobacco leaves and honey, fruit pulp or semi-dried fruit. 


Some smokers would add pomegranate juice or perhaps oil rose water, which adds flavor to the smoke.


While some smokers prefer strong turkish tobacco, others love the large assortment of flavored ones, often called shisha. They come in flavors ranging from apple, cherry, watermelon, vanilla, honey, apricot and jasmine; moreover, there are more exotic blends like lemon-cola, cappuccino, apple-mint and a lot more of custom blends that are night infinite.


Since the hookah tobacco is too wet, it must be smoked with hookah charcoal. Rather than being fired directly, the tobacco is heated wth a coal placed on tinfoil mesh or wire on or in the bowl that holds the wet mixture. Each bowl of this wet tobacco lasts a long time, usually requiring several stuffed charcoal.


In the past, between those rituals and traditions surrounding the lighting and smoking the hookah, or narghile, were strict prohibitions against lighting the tobacco incorrectly - or even allow a cigarette smoker lights his cigarette off of the hookah coal.


The flavored Hookah tobacco contains only 30 percent of tobacco and the remaning 70 percent fruit and molasses or honey. Contains 0.5 per cent of nicotine  and most types contain no tar.


Because it heats rather than burns, studies have shown that few carcinogens are produced in hookah smoke than in other forms of smoking. However, there are concerns about the length of time smokers generally spend around a bowl of hookah, and studies have shown that the product's carbon dioxide is actually higher in hookah smoking. Although it is softer and less carcinogenic, health risks remain. 

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