Origins of the hookah are in the western provinces of India, at the junction with the border of Pakistan and Gujarat about a thousand years ago. These hookahs were uncomplicated and primitive , often they were made of coconut shell and tube top. They have come up with to smoke opium and hashish ... - oh there were times ...

Culture of hookah smoking has done a rather big way from the Persian Empire , across Central Asia to the Arab part of North Africa. And every country brings its own characteristics , which vary as a form of hookah and smoking culture itself . For example, in Persia hookahs looked like little coffins , and the heated coals were placed directly on the moistened tobacco without any impurities that gave a strong flavor of tobacco.

Shape modern hookah has gained in Turkey, about 500 years ago. The fact is that in Turkey, hookahs have become popular among the upper classes and the intelligentsia , which in turn led to a change of design. Hookahs purchased elegant shape and grew up , they were decorated with glass and precious metals, exactly as we know them today.
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