How to Enjoy Tobacco With a Hookah

Hookahs offer a fun way for you to smoke tobacco while socializing with your friends. The experience of smoking from a hookah is quite different from that of smoking cigarettes or cigars, and the hookahs themselves come in such a wide range of colors and shapes that you're bound to find something else to talk about other than the smoke itself.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

1. Smoke with your friends. Although you'll probably meet some interesting folks at the hookah bar itself, you'll have more fun if you bring your buddies along with you.

2. Have an open mind about the hookah smoking experience. Hookahs conjure up images of distant lands and mysterious harems, but they're just another way to smoke tobacco. Don't be afraid to try new things.

3. Flush out stale smoke by gently blowing into the hookah's hose.

4. Stick some ice in the hookah's bowl to make the smoke cool and refreshing. This is a great way to enjoy the hookah's special smoking mechanism that sets it apart from cigars, pipes and cigarettes.

5. Mix different tobacco flavors together and smoke them at once. Tobacco offers a unique way to enjoy flavor and oral sensation, but you don't have to stick with someone else's recipe.

6. Fill the bowl with fresh water before you smoke. This gives the smoke the cleanest and fullest flavor possible.

7. Strike up a conversation with someone you don't know while you're smoking. You'll both have a love for tobacco in common, which is a great starting ground for cultural exchange.