Hookah popularity on the rise in the United States
June 26, 2006 (PRLEAP.COM) Lifestyle News
All across metropolitan cities in the Unites States, american youth has picked up a new hobby called "smoking hookah". The rest of the Eastern world has been enjoying this hobby for many centuries including the adults and the elderly. So why the recent popularity among college students?CustomHookahs.com is an online hookah tobacco,shisha, and hookah pipe store where college students shop. They can also find their local hookah bars just by looking at their state link page. If you are a college student in California for example, you would be able to see how many hookah lounges are within the area. Once you found the hookah bar you would like to visit, you can contact the hookah bar by phone. Google Map directions are also provided to the hookah bar for easy directions to the hookah cafe.
In recent years you have seen many hookah bars all across college towns very busy with young adults smoking hookah and enjoying middle eastern food as they enjoy some conversation with their friends. Why the sudden popularity? We
Hookah, Shisha, and Narghile are all used to describe the same thing in different parts of the world. In the United States and Canada they use the word "hookah". In India and Pakistan they use "hooka" to describe the tobacco smoking water pipe. In Germany, France, and other Arab countries they use "Shisha". Shisha is somewhat ambiguous in it's use because it can mean the water pipe itself, or the hookah tobacco used in the water pipe. “Narghile” is used in countries like Armenia, Turkey, and other countries of the Middle East. Persians also refer to the hookah as the "Gheyloon".
The definition of hookah in Arabic is urn, and came about because the water pipe resmbles an urn. The definition of Narghile in Persian is Coconut and came about because they used to smoke from a coconut. Shisha is consistent with the widely popular definition of a smoker who used a coconut half filled with water as a smoke filter.