Hookah Pipes
Any public hookah smoker knows the price you pay for smoking
a waterpipe at Starbucks. While many restaurants and cafes are slowly coming
around and allowing hookah smokers to smoke their hookahs on their porches and
dining patios, one problem still exist. That problem is the few, the
unintelligent, and the ignorant.
Sure, hookahs
resemble devices used in the 1970's for marijuana consumption but they are by
no means a "bong". Yet despite their artistic evolution, continual
quality enhancements, and overall westernization, the inevitable ignoramus is
bound to come up to the relaxing hookah smoker and say "Hey, I had one of
those in college."
As amusing as the comment is the first time, then the second
time, thereafter it becomes insulting rhetoric. Followed by the statement of
the ignoramus, you are then inclined to express your innocence by declaring the
hookah's sole purpose as being for tobacco use only. In fact, according to a
survey conducted by my company, 99.7% of anonymous hookah smokers surveyed
online stated they never use their hookah for anything other than smoking
shisha (hookah tobacco).
After explaining such things to the self amusing hookah
crasher, the question that always comes next is, "Your not smoking pot?
Then what's the point? What does this shisha do to you?"
What's the point? When asked this question it is strongly
advised that you refrain from your initial instinct of using your lighter or
hookah hose aggressively and instead, reason with the uneducated creature.
Hookah smokers are a different smoking bread than what is
commonly expected. The average hookah smoker generally prefers intellectual
conversations and mild social scenes rather than the ever noise producing
clubs. But don't think you are smoking among angels. Hookahs are also great
additions to the night life. The allure of the hookah is its smooth smoke
producing and social benefit. Aside from a stray ignoramus, most people that
walk up to you while hookah smoking in public areas are generally compatible to
your personality which is great for meeting new people.
Hookahs offer a small unseen private club much like that
which is experienced by avid cigar smokers. As you show off your apparatuses in
public, you will slowly attract a network of hookah smokers that can enhance
your overall experience in owning a hookah. And that is the allure of hookah
smoking.
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