Monday, November 29, 2010

HOOKAH TOBACCO

People enjoy hookah for their leisurely enjoyment, nowadays we often see hookah smokers sitting around in street cafes and restaurants smoking their troubles away exhaling large puffs of sweet smelling smoke of the hookah tobacco which is unlike any other tobacco.  Hookah tobacco is essentially a damp blend referred to as maassel, this blend contains tobacco leaves with molasses or honey and fruit pulp or semi dried fruit depending upon the taste of the smoker. It is also a common practice among some smokers to include pomegranate juice or rose oil to this blend to add extra flavor to the Hookah tobacco. As hookah made its way into the Western society many new and aromatic fruit flavors introduced the hookah fruit flavored tobacco, which is now the most famous.

Although many traditional hookah smokers do enjoy the more traditional hookah tobacco, but most people nowadays enjoy puffing the dark flavorsome wet mixture of aromatic hookah fruit tobacco which comes in outstanding flavors such as vanilla, apple, mint, lemon, passion fruit, raspberry, guava and this succulent list just goes on and on. Hookah tobacco is mainly seventy percent molasses and flavoring and just thirty percent tobacco, 0.5 percent nicotine and most types of hookah tobacco contain almost no tar content, this mix is what gives the tobacco its aromatic and delicious quality. As hookah tobacco by composition is wet so it is smoked with the help of a hookah charcoal. Instead of lighting the tobacco directly, it is heated with the help of a coal placed in a tin foil or a wire mesh which is positioned either above or in the bowl holding the wet mixture of tobacco. Once lit properly this wet tobacco lasts a smoker a very long time, mostly requiring the coal to be lit again and again. In Hookah etiquette it is considered very disrespectable if anyone lights a cigarette near a place where a hookah is being enjoyed, cigarette tobacco is not tolerated by Hookah smokers in their aromatic environment.

Hookah tobacco is not only aromatic but it also has no harmful effects on the smoker, as the tobacco is never actually burned but just heated it produces a fewer number of carcinogens which have the most harmful results on the smoker. So, the next time a trouble worries you just mix up your favorite blend of fruit with your hookah tobacco and just puff all your troubles out of you to disappear literally into the thin air.

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