Author: ModernNomad84

Smoking ban in public places

You¬† probably understand¬† what the Smoking bans in public places like restaurants are all about. You yourself don’t want to eat your hamburger and drink a milkshake with smoke in the air, right? And their are kids around also.

But when it comes to banning smoking in hookah bars, from the U.K. to USA to India  its quite strange, no?

After all ,anyone going there wants to smoke and be with friends  .Second-hand smoke is not going to bother you  when you have a hose in your hand.

Lets hear some comments on this.

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Beirut/Narghileh (Article)

This is a great article from Lancet publishing. They  refer to the rise of hookah smoking  in the Middle East itself.

One politician he states rented 200 hookahs from a restaurant owner to keep people happy while listening to his speech! http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140673605728713/fulltext

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Rediscover

Its so important  to keep an open mind about hookah.

Everyone who smokes hookah at home is an “experimenter”.¬† never fails. Trying new mixes of shisha, buying shisha you’ve never even smoked just to try it out. Keeping inmind that maybe the cheaper brand of shisha could in the end be your favorite.

We try out ways with coals, bowls, hookah in various sizes.

I’ve been buying shisha that in the past was¬† not to my liking and it seems so much that often I’m pleasantly¬† suprised!¬† A brand name I didn’t like before or a certain flavour that¬† now is so great. Did they improve on it? Probably with the competition so high and more companies on the market manufacturing shisha¬† you’ll find that what you thought was junk is now terrific.

Our tastes develope and as we become more experienced in smoking what maybe you were smoking out of your  first hookah is now supreme. . Or before you packed too much in a bowl or burned it with too much coal.

There are even more reasons to re-try some of the old baddies. At worst if it stil proves to be a bummer shisha you can trade it off with friends or a group.

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some ideas when using quick-lighting coals

I have often in the past used natural coals, and I really prefer them, but where I’m living¬† now its impossible.

Of course the quick lighting are usually more convenient but we all know about the flying sparks that a lot of them give off, and smoke, but above all the floor gets messed with a heavy film of gun powder, which is what  covers the coal and burns the outer layer.

Its bad to light the coals on top of the shisha itself since it will tend to burn the top layer or worse.

I’m using a very sparky coal now which sometimes¬† even bursts and sends nuggets of coal all over the wooden floor . I purchased a coal carrier of heavy tin but its built in such a way that makes it hard to get the coals out of so slowly I tied to improvise.

First I found laying around what looks like it was a large tray in one of those toaster ovens, its square shaped. I¬† put¬† the coals on that and then when they sparked hurridley got my home made wind breaker which I had formed circular and is made of heavy duty aluminum. Now when I light them, the coals will still smoke, but at least I’m not spraying my floor with black ash.

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