Month: June 2007

Hookah filters

Ever smoked without a filter?

That’s most of us. Either its cause you don’tknow that filters even exist on the market, or don’t think that the added price is worth even trying it out.

You owe it to yourself. There are 2 such filters widely sold online.

One filter widepread is the Nilotic  filter

http://www.smoking-hookah.com/Products/Accessories/Hookah-Filter.asp?agent_camp=18695001¬†. This is a filter named by an ingenious Egyptian¬† manufacturer, hence the name “Nil-otic”, his company is in Cairo,Egypt right on the north source of the Nile River.

I’ve smoked with the filter awhile back. Wish I had one right now, as I’m smoking Nakhla melon, a big favourite of mine, and with each toke on the pipe, I’m feeling a bit of charcoal dust in my throat.

Of course I  detach the hose after each smoke and blow out the accumilated particles, often wash it out, too, but its not enough and this dust is ruining my smoke.

The Nilotic filter is a brown mouthpiece which just happens to fit any cigarette on the market (also nice) and for us smokers of the hookah, it goes onto the mouthpiece of the hose perfect fit, filtering out that dust, tar, nicotine and what-not. It really does a great job of it.

Try it out and decide if its worth it.They say its good for 15 smokes, which at $2.50 would be  16.666 cents American for each smoke. I am a cheapo and added at least 5 more smokes and it worked. That is  12.5  cents a smoke. Its healthier and no dust in the throat.

Also available is the “Heba” filter. This filter is¬† a plastic do- diddy with ¬†holes¬† in it and its attatched easily to the bottom of the metal shaft in the water where it filters all filth from going through the hose, into the water and into your mouth.

I haven’t tried it, but many I’ve talked to at the hookahlounge like it a lot.

Here’s the link :

Heba com  web site in Lebanon

http://filterheba.net/index.htm

online stores whosell it:

http://www.hookah-shisha.com/store/pc/viewPrd.asp?idproduct=1341

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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 and varied as theonline stores, but its maybe a bit cheaper, and maybe close by.
If not, you can go on the www/searchengine , write in “hookah” and you’ve got the gigantic listing of pages of many shisha companies online.
No wonder almost all the companies names start with the word “Hookah”
Hookah Master.com
HookahCompany.com,Hookah4Less.com
Smoking-Hookah.com (vive’ la differance’)
HookahshishaCentral.com
Fumari(whata).com
Hookah Hub. com
Hukah Mafeesh.com
Gefilteh-Fish.com (a “small” fish joke.)
EastCoastHookah.com (Authentic company)
WestcoastHookah.com (Authentic company)
TheSouthWillRiseAgainHookah.com (sorry, its Friday)
NorthernLightsHookah.com(its still Friday)

Let me say right here :
in Alaska,the Arctic Circle,Greenland, and Hibbing or Duluth Minnesota you should not smoke your hookah at the beach.Ever.
In the winter you will have a coooool cold smoke, but it will freeze in 4 minutes or less.

In the summer the mosquitos of the north are as big as fruit bats and wombies sometimes. They must be related to zombies too, since a bite from them and they draw a lot of blood,”blood bro”.
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Special hookah effects

Put a glow stick in your hookah bowl, turn off the lights and enjoy. By putting the partially used stick in the freezer, it will “stop” the glow until youwant it again, besides, it will cool better than ice!
here are places to buy
Four Pack 4" Green Light Glow Sticks by Ready Hour

http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/content/experiment/light-sticks-the-science-of-liquid-light

http://www.technomoves.com/glowsticks_6-inch.html

http://www.glow-necklaces-light-sticks-raves.com/index.asp?PageAction=MFGSEARCH&ManfID=-1

http://www.glow-stick.net/mini-glow-stick.html

http://www.glow-necklaces-light-sticks-raves.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWCATS&Category=213

http://www.glow-necklaces-light-sticks-raves.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWCATS&Category=212

http://www.glow-necklaces-light-sticks-raves.com/index.asp?

PageAction=VIEWCATS&Category=206

http://www.technomoves.com/glowsticks_mini.html

ice cubes plain to coo your smoke

put milk,tea,fruit juice, vodka,tequilla,wine,beer,ouzo etc. in bowl for thick smoke and nice taste

Hookah Table 4 Safe Smoking

We talked about some safe smoking tips, like putting aluminum foil under the whole hookah area, not pulling too hard on the hose (bad,bad), making a non-tip base for your hookah….. or did we?
Actually, it was mentioned, but not as a special post not yet.
Of course, you might like to invest in this great simple colored plastic bowl-base.Non slippng and a perfect fit , there are small, and large sizes custom made
http://www.smoking-hookah.com/Store/Hookah-Accessories.asp
its at the bottom of he page “hookah protector”

. To make your own base for a non-tip hookah” tip” simply take a sturdy carton and draw around the bottom of your base, cut. You can have as high a box as you want, but 3 inches might be fine, or make of plywood, paint ,design and cut.
Mine sits on the 3 tiered glass table I have with a electric light on top . I had the table already. The 3 tiers are step sized. Small tier on top, second tier step bigger and the 3rd even wider with a brass metal magazine holder that happened to be a few m”m wider than my hookah base! Just dumb luck. I got it free from my sister who dumped it on me to try saving space in her house.
Try going to “Salvation Army” and “Goodwill” stores, buy a cheap table, cut a hole custom for your bowl size and nail some wood underneath to sink it 3 inches below the level of the table.
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