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xiphiasSo, like I said, today, we were trained on hookah, a topic I previously knew nothing about. I smoked one maybe twice.
The most interesting thing I learned is that you can get tobacco for hookahs that contains only minimal amounts of actual tobacco (and, in fact, those mostly-not-tobacco "tobaccos" are the only kind that Tangierino sells.) You CAN get actual-tobacco tobacco, but that's not what people are mostly smoking, at least not in Boston. No, and not cannabis, either, at least not in public. They're mostly smoking mixtures of fruit. The one that we tried was mainly lemon peel and molasses. It contained about five percent tobacco by volume, and some percentage of the nicotine would have been absorbed by the water in the hookah. Oh, you're still breathing smoke, so I certainly wouldn't recommend it for asthmatics, but the nicotine may well be trivial.
Neat, hunh?
The most interesting thing I learned is that you can get tobacco for hookahs that contains only minimal amounts of actual tobacco (and, in fact, those mostly-not-tobacco "tobaccos" are the only kind that Tangierino sells.) You CAN get actual-tobacco tobacco, but that's not what people are mostly smoking, at least not in Boston. No, and not cannabis, either, at least not in public. They're mostly smoking mixtures of fruit. The one that we tried was mainly lemon peel and molasses. It contained about five percent tobacco by volume, and some percentage of the nicotine would have been absorbed by the water in the hookah. Oh, you're still breathing smoke, so I certainly wouldn't recommend it for asthmatics, but the nicotine may well be trivial.
Neat, hunh?