Monday, 27 June 2011
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Do You Smoke Hookah?
Last night my girlfriends and I drove into the closest city and went to a hookah bar. Hookah bars are all over NYC, and I've gone a few times with my friends from the city. The places usually double at restaurants so you can get food and drinks and smoke flavored hookah.
With me being a health freak and all, I was a little hesitant to do it when I first went a few years ago.
I looked it up online, and learned that they use a natural tobacco to 'flavor' the smoke. While it's not good for you, once in a while isn't going to hurt. There are none of the horrible chemicals found in cigarettes, for example. It's supposed to make you relaxed and lightheaded, although I never have really felt any side-effects.
It was fun to go in the back room, which was really dark, and sit on the cushions and listen to middle-eastern music. It felt very exotic and my friends and I chatted as we passed around the hookah. We got mango and honey berry flavors, and some weird-named but very delicious food.
What do you guys think about hookah? Have you ever done it? Do you think it's sexy or skanky?
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Not my thing.
I tried it when I was in Germany. It was a cool one time thing, but I don't plan to do it again.
any person smoking looks unattractive. regardless of what they are smoking.
I've done it a couple times and I found it enjoyable, but I had this strange feeling like I was letting myself and others close to me down. Smoking is smoking. Even when it taste like fruit and honey. And actually, hooka makes me high as hell. It was a bit unnerving.
I smoke it about once a week (I have my own hookah). Meh. I find it relaxing and I enjoy it on a nice cool evening as I unwind from my day.
I go to a hookah bar with my friends a few times year. I'd actually like to do it more often but it's a very social thing and my friends are constantly busy so it's nice to just relax in a chilled out place like a hookah bar and smoke something tasty when we get together. And of course smoking in any form is not good for you but this stuff is not addictive and it's meant to be a once in awhile thing. Cause other then hookah I don't smoke anything else, do drugs or even drink. So doing this is really not going to kill me.
I do it sometimes, I don't mind it. we just all get together and chat around it and do hookah! :D I don't think its sexi or skany haha it just fun to do with friends.
Is this seriously a question? Since when smoking becomes hot?
Really disgusting, if I know a girl I like smokes, I'm done, instantly.
I'm also allergic, so its a horrible thing, and I also think its a waste of money... I'd rather spend those few bucks or save them up for a date or adventure..there are many more ways to have healthier fun
i own a hookah and i love it. i smoke it 3 times a week. i sometimes get tobacco, but usually i get flavored and herbal molasses. they taste so good, especially the tangerine dream and strawberry margarita flavors.and even if you do get the tobacco, there's no tar or harmful chemicals in it and only .005% nicotine. its nothing like cigarettes. i think its really fun to do especially with other people, so its more of a social activity. i love my hookah and think theres nothing wrong with smoking one.
I like hookah. I know, I know.
makes me too lightheaded
I mean, do what you want but quit deluding yourself into thinking you aren't hurting yourself. Even occasional smokers have an exponentially greater risk of cancer than non-smokers.
And yes, you CAN get addicted to nicotine by smoking hookah, because hookah smoke has nicotine in it, just like other forms of tobacco, so don't even think you can't get hooked.
It's a type of smoking and it's nasty to me. It's unnecessary and personally they shouldn't act like it's less harmful that smoking cigs . Tobacco is tobacco, no matter how you smoke it.
I've never tried it but I keep wanting to. Most of my friends that live in Miami are more of the innocent type so they're not willing to try it. I do have some friends that I could go with, I probably just wouldn't feel as comfortable.
I really, really like Hookah. Reminds me of summertime- of course, it'd be down to once a week or less. Now after recent situations I haven't been able to smoke hookah :/ what sucks is smelling the delicious scents whenever my friends would smoke it around me.
I think it's skanky. Is it impossible to have fun without hurting yourself?
i like hookah! people need to be more open with trying new things -_-
I'm that person that is all anti drugs and will never try any sort of drug. But I decided to just try hookah who knows why, pretty stupid, I know. I guess because it didn't seem as harmful or addictive. It did nothing for me. I think mostly because I'm so anti drugs, which means I think it's stupid to need substances to feel "good". So to me it was just stupid...and the whole time I was like "wtf, this does nothing, why do people do this?" My brain is too stubborn to be taken over by substances, which is also why I never get drunk, even when I've tried to (you know for kicks and giggles). I guess it's a good thing, because I'll never want that feeling because I've never experienced it.
Sexy? Skanky? This has nothing to do with hookah. Smoking hookah is just that, nothing more. A hot guy smoking a hookah is just as attractive, to me, as a guy not smoking anything. What is terribly unattractive, to me, are people who get all, "ew smoking is gross and people who smoke are gross ewwww there are cooler ways to die..." From then on, I can just see a "I'm annoying, stay away from me" sign around their neck.
I mean, it's great that people have their own opinions and shit, but at a certain point I have to wonder why people get all up in arms about anything tobacco-related, when a good portion of them are probably sitting there eating foods that will clog their arteries, and tolerant of drinking alcohol that we all know causes a lot of health problems and accidents. Really, just about anything can kill you or hurt you in some way, whether short or long term... I don't smoke cigarettes, but I've been to a hookah bar and I quite enjoyed it and would consider going back again. It's relaxing and a nice way to chill with friends without going to a noisy club or bar.
@sassypenguin@xanga - Agreed, thanks :]
@StatelessPilot@revelife - lovely to see that some people have the correct knowledge of hookah- and better yet, will share it. Thanks for your post!
I smoked Hookah a few times. It's fun. I wouldn't do it all the time, though.
@StatelessPilot@revelife - While this may very well be true, I'm not about to stop smoking hookah and turn around and gripe about other people smoking. At that point I might as well stop drinking, going out in the sun, and throw out my computer because there have been studies that show staring at this screen can eventually harm your eyes. If you haven't seen any part of the film "Supersize Me" I'd be surprised, but I know plenty of people who watched that movie and still continue to eat their fatty fried McFood. Good information to know, though. I'll be dead someday, but I'm not going to live in a figurative bubble my whole life just because nearly every day we discover something is linked to cancer or health problems. :/