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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>To add to the educational discussion, the tobacco
is soaked in molasses and various fruit flavors are added. It is very
sticky. It also has almost no nicotine due to the nitrates in the soil
where it is grown (The Middle East). Other nasty "second hand" poisons are
almost non-existent due to the fact that you don't light the tobacco on fire,
but as sluggy said, pull hot air over it.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Daungerous, cigarette free for 339
days</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>Pretty is as Pretty does<BR><A
href="http://www.desertdancer.com">http://www.desertdancer.com</A></DIV>
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<A title=ddancer_saviti@yahoo.com href="mailto:ddancer_saviti@yahoo.com">Lady
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=elfsea@ansteorra.org
href="mailto:elfsea@ansteorra.org">Barony of Elfsea</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, August 20, 2003 10:33
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Elfsea] Hookah</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Thank you Sluggy for the fab. info on the Hooka. My<BR>first
time using one was at Byblos and the fruity<BR>flavor was wonderful. I think
of the catapillar in<BR>Alice in Wonderland when I hear "hooka".
<BR><BR>Brigit<BR><BR><BR>--- Sluggy! <<A
href="mailto:slugmusk@linuxlegend.com">slugmusk@linuxlegend.com</A>>
wrote:<BR>> Siobhan Ni Fearguis wrote:<BR>> > <BR>> > There is
actually a club in San Antonio that <BR>> > has a back room full of
hooka pipes. Very cool.<BR>> <BR>> In my limited experience, there
sometimes seems to<BR>> be a bit of stigma <BR>> about the word
"hookah", apparently bringing up<BR>> images of opium dens and <BR>>
other such taboo behavior. This is too bad, for<BR>> nothing is quite the
<BR>> same kind of relaxing as sitting around for an<BR>> after-dinner
confab <BR>> around a pipe, laughing and sharing a fruity shisha<BR>>
together.<BR>> <BR>> In short, the apparatus consists of a
(usually)<BR>> metal top, a properly <BR>> fitting bottle and a long
hose with a suitable<BR>> nozzle at the end. The <BR>> shisha bowl at
the top is loaded with tobacco,<BR>> usually protected from <BR>> direct
heat by punctured foil. A lighted chunk of<BR>> pure carbon charcoal
<BR>> is placed on top of the tobacco.<BR>> <BR>> When the user draws
on the tube, very hot air is<BR>> drawn from the <BR>> charcoal, through
the tobacco, down a tube through<BR>> water in the bottle <BR>> where it
is cooled and somewhat filtered, then back<BR>> up through the tube
<BR>> to the user. The smoke can be either simply tasted<BR>> or
inhaled.<BR>> <BR>> This method of smoking tobacco is rather
pleasant,<BR>> especially compared <BR>> to any other method that I have
tried (bearing in<BR>> mind that I am not <BR>> otherwise a
smoker).<BR>> <BR>> It is, however, still smoking tobacco.<BR>>
<BR>> Several restaraunts of Middle Eastern cuisine offer<BR>> them as a
desert <BR>> activity, generally for about $10 per load. Byblos<BR>>
(Lebanese) in Fort <BR>> Worth is one example. I think I've had one at
a<BR>> place in Dallas, but I <BR>> don't remember just this second
which one it was :)<BR>> <BR>> Also, the pipes, various flavors of
tobacco and the<BR>> proper charcoal can <BR>> be purchased from most
Middle Eastern grocery<BR>> stores, such as <BR>> "International Food
Land" in Arlington (on Cooper,<BR>> 1700 block). I <BR>> recommend the
medium or larger units because they<BR>> have a larger base and <BR>>
and much less likely to tip over when you are<BR>> passing the hose around
<BR>> the table.<BR>> <BR>> Sluggy!<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> --
<BR>> <BR>> "We have almost forgotten how strange it is that
so<BR>> huge and powerful and intelligent an animal as
a<BR>> horse should allow another, and far more
feeble<BR>> animal, to ride upon it's back."<BR>>
<BR>>
Peter Gray<BR>> <BR>> "The horse. Here is nobility without
conceit,<BR>> friendship without envy, beauty without
vanity.<BR>> A willing servant, yet no slave."<BR>>
<BR>>
Ronald Duncan<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>>
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