It has been pointed out that not everyone knows what hookah/argilla is! My bad. I am just going to use argilla from now on to keep up with the Jordanians. Argilla is a large water pipe to smoke shisha out of. Shisha is flavored tobacco that is very wet and sticky. The shisha is put in a little bowl at the top of the hookah and then the bowl is covered in tin foil. Holes are poked in the tin foil and coals go on top. There is a hose that attaches to the base, which is partially filled with water. When someone sucks in it pulls air from the top so the charcoal will heat the shisha and create smoke. The smoke goes down to the base and is cooled off by the water. The result is very thick clouds of smoke. It is hugely popular in my house, meaning multiple times a day. In the US I think of argilla as a very social activity; multiple hoses per hookah and passing back and forth every few puffs. Here it is very individual. It seems everyone has their own and if you are sharing a hose one person will sit on it for a very long time before passing. They keep giving me funny looks every time I pass it back so quickly but I was just trying to share. Here are some pics : )
Hookah - it really makes the people bond closer. It wouldn't be social smoking for nothing! So how often do you do this? There are people who are really all game for long sessions of hookah, and there are also a few people who'd just settle in for vaporizers because, of course, they're less harmful.
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