quick smoking tip

I heard this tip from a guy who runs a big 24/7 Hookah store.
If you have left your hookah for a few minutes, when you come back to smoke make sure you blow out the smoke from the hose and what’s left in the bottle, it’s quickly gotten stale and will taste bad.
Same thing if its too strong and you are coughing. Blow out all the smoke from the bowland take a new toke, it’ll be smoother and easy on your lungs.
Or if not, there is too much burning coal. Maybe this type of shisha needs less coal than others. (better tobacco-slower burning session)
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AFZAL Cardammon review

http://youtube.com/watch?v=jHPOzQzk9Qo&feature=PlayList&p=C4FB4C33B711B017&index=72&playnext=3

A nice “Monty Python and his Flying Circus ” song to listen to as you smoke.

I’m¬† enjoying AFZAL “Cardamon” flavour. CardaMON as in CinnaMON. Its an Arabic flavouring for Turkish coffee. The AFZAL¬† brand of Cardammon does not overkill you with taste like the NKHLA Cardammon. I even mixed¬† tonight The Nakhla Cardammon with another flavour to weaken its taste, but it was too much for me. The Afzal is smoother, more tobacco taste with it and slower burning. Try it.

Love that “Soex” non-tobacco

“Soex” company¬† makes two ¬†lines¬† of great smoking hookah shisha.

One is “Soex” with no nicotine,tar, or tobacco. Only herbal.

The second is “AFZAL” which is¬† real shisha tobacco but it beats most “regular” shisha brands of the highest premium tastes!

“Soex”¬† contains no-tobacco and no nicotine. It comes in many¬† great tasting flavours. I’ve found¬† them very authentic tasting, though as a¬†long time smoker of shisha I could feel that lack of nicotine kick¬† in it. but that’s what its all about; for a non-nicotine herbal smoke its what you are looking for. Nice fragrance and great taste.¬†¬†

It is available online at many companies such as  :

 

http://www.smoking-hookah.com/Products/Shisha/Soex-Herbal-Hookah-Molasses-500-carton.asp

http://www.hooka-hookah.com/shisha-tobacco.html

http://www.eastcoasthookahs.com/

http://www.hookah-smoking.com/shisha.html

“Soex”¬† also makes also the¬† “AFZAL” real tobacco mu’assel.

This is a “premium” type ¬†smoke, without the premium price.

It also is sold from New Delhi, India as is “Soex”.

Upon opening the box and bag, I immediately smelled  2 things. First of all you quickly  smell a strong  tobacco fragrance, you see in the mix actual well cut up tobacco leaves, and each  taste you sniff and know right away what  the flavour is before smoking  even with your eyes closed!

As Afzal is a premium smoke, it is a very long lasting session. I am amazed at the length of time it smokes and yet it stayed good to the end.

“AFZAL” can also be bought by the online stores listed above, and below.

 

100% True Hookah Story

There is a book¬† I read in 1968 that is written in the first person , a man telling his story as it is happening “now”.

He is captured by aliens and taken to their planet where he is put in a large guilded cage . He finds there a woman, and the aliens want them to procreate the human species for them.

The story is told, but¬† the teller goes on tangents from time to time .Literally .Here he¬†lives ¬†in 1966 on the foreign ¬†planet, and all of a sudden he is a¬† combat pilot¬† of the American Air Force in ¬†World War 2.¬† He calls this “going back and forth in time”.

At age 17 when I read the book, the concept of a person going back AND forth in time over and over again was a strange phenomenon.

Today at age 54, I do that time traveling very often myself with no actual desire or effort on my part.

I could be here in the room writing, and all of a sudden a scene from 45,  and easily 50 years ago will flash up for a split second,but tell a whole story.  Actually yesterday I flashed back to age 4 when my older cousin from South Bend ,Indiana came to visit and  we were watching the large boxed tiny screen t.v. which was available then.

Thats one big reason why¬† children do NOT want to hear your stories about “what Daddy did in the war” since the past is a strange concept to them.Their past might be only 10-15 years.

For my self born  only 8  years after the end of WW2 I realize that it was of my own time, and of the people around me, but growing up I thought it was 5o years away.

Now I can tell this story which often comes back to me, and has come back quite often of my first

 H O O K A H experience and resulted in deadly concequences.

In 1970 I went to the souk (shuk) which is Arabic for “market place”.

I went as a 17 year old to smoke something OTHER  than  shisha which was quite lawful then to smoke.

¬†Take “shisha” and put an “H” in front, you’ll¬† know¬† what it was. and quite cheap then. Maybe the big influx of tourists which came a few years after raised the prices from¬† half a dollar for a finger sized nice brown Lebanese made to¬† $10¬† soon after.

It later became illegal when the western countries preasured the Middle Eastern big cities¬† in order to keep their own ¬†citizens from buying and sending it home, or in their luggage. There were no dogs at New York’s airport then to sniff out hashish, maybe herion .

I went to a small side street of the market into a residential area, up the steps not far at all where there was a nice Tea House. I came in, sat down on one of the 3 benches on each side of the walls facing the large entrence opening and was served  a clear glass cup of very heavily sugured tea.

Across from me sat a tall boy¬† around my age.There was also an elder who wore a kaffiyeh (not seen as much today)¬† and an American tourist¬† with longish hair. Within about 5 minutes¬† the same one who gave us the tea brought in a very tall narghileh¬† with a steel stem and¬† clear glass water bowl. In the tobacco bowl he placed about 4¬† broken pieces of hashish¬† each around¬† 10 grams or so since we were only¬† 4 people. On top of¬† that he placed burning natural coals. My eyes popped at the ammount. “There goes my throat” I thought to myself, since I had been smoking since age 15, but in small pipes which made the smoke¬† terribly harsh.The coals were placed on the top, no foil.

The elder¬† with the kaffiyeh headress¬† was passed the long hose and he smoked. I can’t remember after that who came next, but when I took a strong pull on the hose I barely tasted the¬† smoke flavour. As I let the smoke out it kept¬† comming out¬† more, and more and still no stop to it. I knew¬† that the effect could not be immediate, there was my first time smoking a hookah. That was the water effect of the hookah.

We kept passing the hose around. The older man left first walking well on his legs. Soon the man who¬† served us came in , looked around and asked the American tourist to go. He could barely move! About a short time after that the tourist rushed in again yelling “Where is my Frisbee? Where is my frisbee?”

That was “East meets West”! 2 cultures colliding. The man dragged him out again. Only in America!

We we then left the tall guy and myself,  in no rush to leave and no one was going to toss us out, we even recieved more tea.

As we got to talking he asked me how old I was. I said “Soon 18”.

“So we’re both up for the army draft, huh?” he asked. Yes I told him.He¬† and I left, both going our own way (and neither of us bothered to check under the bench for any left frisbee).

After 8 months of basic training we were going to advanced training ¬†.I met him again. Our ¬†unit was¬† like the American Marines as compared to the regular American army¬† infantry and he was going from¬† there to a very “special” unit¬† .¬† I had seen¬† before when we first met that ¬†the guy was something different top notch.

To shorten the story, that was 1971 .It has been  many years  and he was killed  making an attack  on a fort along with 14 other soldiers  on a very high hill in  1973 by snipers. I  was with a larger unit on the other side of that hill and later finished  my time in 1974.

By the way, the only thing I smoke in the hookah is tobacco.