[Alter Kaker]

You druggies are all the same, always trying to intellectualize your beliefs.

I am not a druggie. I do not smoke anything, tobacco included. I do like red wine and single malt scotch, although neither to excess.

The hookah was not designed and is not primarily used to smoke tobacco.

You are simply mistaken. Maybe it's because I live in the Middle East, but never, either here or in the United States, have I seen anyone use a hookah for anything other than tobacco. Out of curiosity, have you ever been in a hookah bar? As for spelling, please forgive me, kind sir or madam, for carelessly misspelling the words "sustain" and "ingest.". I hope that you understand that English is my fourth language and that you always hold yourself to the same liguistic standards to which you hold others. I'm curious to converse with you in your fourth language.

Yours ever sincerely,

Alter Kaker

[coop71]

Bingo!!! Hookahs aren't generally used for anything other than tobacco. And the tobacco used in a hookah is usually a flavored tobacco, like strawberry or cherry, vanilla, etc., with molasses and/honey mixed in - not your usual cigarette or cigar tobacco. This idea of hookahs being used for pot or opium is fueled by stupid movies and TV shows and is inaccurate. It's a social activity that goes waaaaaaaaaaay back in history...and while I don't partake (pregnant and a nonsmoker anyway), my husband breaks out his hookah when his buddies come over and they enjoy it, much like people enjoy smoking a good cigar.

[FreedomPoster]

We went to a Lebanese-cuisine restaurant with friends a couple of month ago. We got a hookah with dessert and coffee, with some apple-flavored tobacco. I don't smoke cigarettes, and maybe smoke a cigar once every month or two. With that said, I must say, it was pretty darn civilized, smoking that hookah. I liked it.

Everyone had their own plastic mouthpieces, which you removed when you passed the hookah hose around, for those wondering about that.

[Vision]

You are simply mistaken. Maybe it's because I live in the Middle East, but never, either here or in the United States, have I seen anyone use a hookah for anything other than tobacco

Come on

[KC_Conspirator]

There was an article in the Washington Post about hookah bars. Most all of them are restaurants with hookahs in them, are they are a bunch of them in the area. I would like to go to one of them, but I am not sure how comfortable I would feel in one of them.