Entries Tagged as 'Hookahs and Health'

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

Mrs. Sultan calls for Religous Tolerance

 While you watch thse various different mediums of Turkish History at the time of the Sultan,
check out this great
“Alladin’s Hookah”
http://www.smoking-hookah.com/Products/Hookah/aladdins-genie.asp
The Young Sultan boy Mehmet  becomes King….cartoon , terrificly done and illustrated Turkish history of Sultan Mehmet (I found 11 parts.) in parts. I reccomend this as cultural background.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=JXD4d8X1sdA  part 1

http://youtube.com/watch?v=OOv3xSo-hQc part 2
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZIaQAWerbHk part 3
 
 Here is the newly designed […]

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

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 […]

Friday, June 8th, 2007

Where do you buy a hookah and tobacco?

Some of us buy, if they have the luxury to be near an “Ethnic store” their hookahs and tobacco mu’assel there from store owners they know and come back to with faulty hookahs or stale tobacco shisha.
The variety is far from as large […]

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

Hookah Smoking Caterpillar

So as a hookah smoker, our little claim to fame is the Hookah Smoking Caterpillar that we all know and love from Alice in Wonderland. So, what better is there to do than to make a banner out of it and remind us all of when we were three years old and had no idea […]

Saturday, October 21st, 2006

Hookah Smokers Across the World Reading Here at The Hookah Lounge!

Alright, so I thought that you all might enjoy seeing where your hookah smoking friends that read on this website are reading from! Google supplies me this nifty little map, so I’m going to pass it along to you. Let’s just say that the USA is way in the lead, with the Middle-East […]

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

Search for Hookahs, Hookas, Hooka and Shisha on Flickr

If you want to waste a few minutes, you can surf on over to flickr and search for Hookahs, Hookas, Hooka, or Shisha. Trust me- you’ll find some truly fascinating stuff. I found some people who turned a watermelon into a hookah, some people who are making their own shisha (much like the people […]

Saturday, September 16th, 2006

Smoking a Hookah in the Bathroom of Your Cubicle Job: How to Puff Away While Getting Paid and What to Do If you Get Caught

Yes.  You’ve all thought about doing it.  Having a hookah at work…
You say: “The british have their tea parties, why can’t we smoke a hookah?”
The answer is you can, and heres how.

Step 1: Buy a hookah
Step 2: Take it to work.
Step 3: Find a nifty little place in the bathroom where you can stash it […]

Monday, July 10th, 2006

Alert: Smoking Hookahs Can’t Be THAT Bad For You!

So all of you have been ambushed by those crazies who will tell you that smoking the hookah is just as bad as smoking cigarettes. Well, I am no doctor, but here’s a little story that made me a believe that this simply isn’t true…
Yesterday I had the great priviledge for running a 15K […]

Thursday, July 6th, 2006

Herbal Smoke… Damiana, Kava, Skullcap and More

Many people all over the world are now hooked on a new trend – herbal smoking, also known as legal bud smoking. Legal bud smoking involves inhaling the fumes of several herbs, after lighting them, either through specialized pipes, chillums or just by rolling them in cigarette paper.
A wide variety of these herbs have been […]

Friday, June 30th, 2006

Hookah Tobacco aka Shisha Tobamel or Maassel

The tobacco used in hookahs is different than that associated with cigarettes, or, indeed, any other form of smoking. It is, traditionally, a damp blend–called shisha, tobamel or maassel–of fresh tobacco leaves with molasses or honey and semi-dried fruit or fruit pulp. Some smokers would add pomegranate juice or perhaps rose oil to the water, […]