Sheesha
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Hookah and Sheesha
A hookah is an Arabic water pipe. It is also known as a shisha (or sheesha - the name is derived from the namesake tobacco it uses), kalian, or hubble-bubble, or argileh. It is a traditional Arabic device for smoking hashish, marijuana, and later tobacco, or indeed any other smokeable substance, operating on the principle of a water pipe.
Substances used for smoking must not be completely dry - an example of commonly used substance is a mixture of shisha tobacco with semi-dried fruit. (Shisha tobacco comes in various flavours, and usually tastes like fruit, because the tobacco leaves are mixed with dried fruit extracts. Flavours include apple, strawberries and mint.)
Instead of being ignited, the substance is heated to a very high temperature - traditionally with the help of an ember. When the user inhales, the substance fumes, but doesn't burn. The water pipe produces smoke from a small lump, placed on a small grid on top of the pipe and covered by a piece of aluminium foil, on top of which burning matter is placed. The smoke then goes down into a pipe and passes through a glass or crystal bottle at the bottom of the shisha. This bottle is filled with water, or diluted wine, and is used to refine and cool down the smoke. Sometimes a type of syrup (or serum) is mixed in, to give it an added flavour. The water also removes much of the tar and nicotine coming from tobacco. The smoker inhales the smoke that has passed through the bottle through a long hose with a mouth piece.
Hookah are traditionally decorated. They have a very distinctive appearance, and bear similarities to the American Indian pipe of peace.
Compared to a cigarette, shisha is much smoother and more flavorful. Shisha smoking is generally considered less damaging to the health than cigarettes, particular when the smoker does not inhale the smoke into the lungs. However there is a misconception that there are no health risks associated with shisha smoking. -
wah look very complicated... like something frm the science lab like dat....
but sounds not bad, can choose fruit flavor rite? ok ok xmen I noe lah, no durian....
so are we supposed to inhale it into our lungs or not? -
think so... if not, nevermind right?
where's the mutant? -
Now I know.
Time to go try it out again.
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I also want to try!!!!Originally posted by X-men:Now I know.
Time to go try it out again. -
no need to inhale into the lungs.. when I first tried it... my friends said.. inhale using mouth.. thn let the smoke out yr nose.. can liao...this way.. u got the 'taste' from the smoke.Originally posted by tare:wah look very complicated... like something frm the science lab like dat....
but sounds not bad, can choose fruit flavor rite? ok ok xmen I noe lah, no durian....
so are we supposed to inhale it into our lungs or not? -
so, mutant... when?
this saturday is good -
wah, looks like the thing for smoking pot
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Reminds me of a bong.
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the smoke come out white white one... very fun... hahaha...
its like those kinda of comedy show when the bomb explodes and you breathe white smoke out of your mouth and nostrils... -
Yeah i know.. just like a bong.Originally posted by s|nNeD:the smoke come out white white one... very fun... hahaha...
its like those kinda of comedy show when the bomb explodes and you breathe white smoke out of your mouth and nostrils...
Read Disclaimer, i do not encourage or support bong activities.
rather.. have cone or rollies. -
pardon me for my ignorance but wats a bong?
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SINNED, have ya seen.. the movie.. erm..
Scary movie? Or.. the other one ... i can't remember.
But anyway.. it is a thing.. Hmm. i'll search.. hang on.
It is a mechanism used to smoke weed.
But it isn't as sophisticated as the Sheesha. Heard that you can build one yourself with plastic pipes and a Spring Valley Juice glass bottle. Erm.. actually it is a proven fact that you can build one yourself. -
wah piang!
r u peeps into drugs n stuff??? -
goodness.. you're about as bad as stoner... who insists sheesha is opium
a bong is basically a waterpipe... same thing as a hookah...
just stick a thingy into a bottle, fill with water, then you've got a bong!Originally posted by HENG@:wah piang!
r u peeps into drugs n stuff??? -
whatever it is, dun think it's healthy stuff....
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it's tobacco... anything to do with tobacco isn't
but then, sometimes, we all have to have a few vices
Originally posted by coolger03:whatever it is, dun think it's healthy stuff.... -
wahhh... very complicated for a suaku like me leh.... don even noe how it works
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works exactly like a cigaretteOriginally posted by thhong22:wahhh... very complicated for a suaku like me leh.... don even noe how it works
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izit? but y look so complicated???Originally posted by the Bear:works exactly like a cigarette
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Well.. if you do.. watch out for the smell of it.
OOOhhh.. btw, not refering to tabacco. I wonder if anyone has used a bong to smoke tabacco?
Funny thing is.. i don't understand the point of the water! Bear, can you explain? -
oh. so its for smoking?Originally posted by the Bear:goodness.. you're about as bad as stoner... who insists sheesha is opium
a bong is basically a waterpipe... same thing as a hookah...
just stick a thingy into a bottle, fill with water, then you've got a bong!
thats what that caterpiller, or whatever it was, was using in "Alice in Wondeland" right? -
like the hookah, it works like a filter, and cools the smoke
making the smoke smooth and pretty nice
also removes the ashes when you're using it for weedOriginally posted by Lingos:Well.. if you do.. watch out for the smell of it.
OOOhhh.. btw, not refering to tabacco. I wonder if anyone has used a bong to smoke tabacco?
Funny thing is.. i don't understand the point of the water! Bear, can you explain? -
caterpillars are mashed into the tobacco
just kidding in Alice in Wonderland, the caterpillar was smoking this
oh..
sheesha.. saturday evening.. trying to find out where from the mutant...
if interested, turn up? will post again with the details -
wonder if i can bring hammie there?