A Social Smoking of Shisha

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Have you ever the term of shisha? First, you have to be familiar with the term of hookah as a smoking pipe. This smoking pipe is not small as the one that smokers might use it for their own smoking. It is a smoking instrument that produces a cooled and filtered for the smoke is passed through water. Sisha is the tobacco smoked through this hookah. This instrument is originally from India yet it can be found in some other countries.

As history mentioned about the originality of hookah, an Iranian physician named Abu’l-Fat? G?l?n? invented the idea in India. He projected the system that enables smoke to be passed through water so that it is purified. First, it was popular among Indian noblemen; this device soon became aristocracy’s and gentry’s status symbol. Later on, it became popular in the Middle East and soon other country.

In the Middle East, exactly in Arab, people smoke because it is a part of traditions. When people like to gather to socialize, smoking can also a part of social activity. Shisha pipe may have a single or double hose. Sometimes, it is more than two when people have parties so that they gather with a number of guests. It is used in turn from one person to next others. When one person is finished, the hose is put back on the table that it means available for others, or the hose is handed from the first smoker to the next one.

Nowadays, sisha can be found over some countries like in some cafes or social gathering parties.  Even, the instruments are produced and spreading with unique accessories and good prices. The names can be varied as well. In UK, hookah is also called as the marra pipe and it is used only for recreational purposes.

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