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					Originally Posted by justonemorestick  Check out a local hooka bar and give it a try... | 
	
 +1 if possible.
Entirely different experience from a pipe.  More a flavored vapor than hard particulate smoke, it needs a deep inhale to get to the heart of the deal.  Not a bad thing, just not like a pipe.  You also need foil, special hookah tobacco, charcoal and, ideally, a blowtorch and a good baby-bottle brush sooner or later to clean the stinky thing out.
For the once or twice a year I get a hookah jones I go the the middle eastern bar, have a shish-kabab, some rice pilaf, let the pretty lady from Lebanon pour the turkish coffee and, then, she brings a clean shisha and fires it up for me.  I prefer this method to actual ownership and maintenance.  
