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**JewJoleSole** · 11-19-2008, 11:56 AM

Originally posted by Zkribbler

People here say it's used for smoking opium, and while that's true, you can smoke anything in it that you can smoke using other means.

Its purpose is to cool and filter the smoke.

The water [or wine] compartment has two tubes coming into its top. One is connected to the part that holds the smoking substance. The other tube goes to the mouthpiece.

When the smoker sucks on the mouthpiece, the smoke is drawn down into the device, bubbled through the water [or wine] and then goes up to the mouthpiece.

BTW: It's also known as a hooka. (See the hooka-smoking caterpillar in Alice Through the Lookinglass.) Finally, someone else that remembers "Walk Like an Egyptian".

ACK!

11-19-2008, 11:56 AM	#20
JewJoleSole Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 384 Senior Member	Originally posted by Zkribbler People here say it's used for smoking opium, and while that's true, you can smoke anything in it that you can smoke using other means. Its purpose is to cool and filter the smoke. The water [or wine] compartment has two tubes coming into its top. One is connected to the part that holds the smoking substance. The other tube goes to the mouthpiece. When the smoker sucks on the mouthpiece, the smoke is drawn down into the device, bubbled through the water [or wine] and then goes up to the mouthpiece. BTW: It's also known as a hooka. (See the hooka-smoking caterpillar in Alice Through the Lookinglass.) Finally, someone else that remembers "Walk Like an Egyptian". ACK!
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