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Is It Safe to Smoke Hookah Inside Your Home? This is one of those questions where the answer is technically yes but comes with a fairly long list of things you need to take seriously if you are g...
Read More →Does Spending More on a Hookah Actually Get You a Better Smoke? This is one of the most debated questions in the hookah community, and depending on who you ask you'll get wildly different answers...
Read More →Do You Actually Need Hookah Accessories or Is It All Marketing? The hookah accessories market has exploded over the past few years, and if you spend any time browsing online shops you'd be forgiv...
Read More →Why Does Choosing the Right Flavour Matter When You're Starting Out? When you're new to hookah, the sheer number of available shisha flavours can be genuinely overwhelming -- walk into any decent...
Read More →Why Does Your First Hookah Matter More Than You Think? Choosing your first hookah is one of those decisions that seems straightforward until you actually start looking at the options -- and then ...
Read More →What Makes a Hookah "Traditional" or "Modern"? If you have been looking at hookahs for any length of time, you have probably noticed that they fall into two fairly distinct camps. On one side you...
Read More →Where Did Hookah Culture Actually Begin? The origins of hookah are the subject of some debate, but the most widely recognised account traces it back to India in the 16th century, where a physicia...
Read More →Why Does the Size of Your Shisha Pack Matter? Walk into any shisha shop or browse any online store and you will be faced with the same tobacco available in a range of different pack sizes -- typi...
Read More →What Does a Purge Valve Actually Do? The purge valve is one of those hookah components that most beginners either do not know exists or completely ignore for the first few months of smoking. It s...
Read More →Why Does Your Charcoal Choice Matter So Much? There are a number of things that effect the quality of a hookah session -- the tobacco, the bowl, the pack, the heat management -- but if I had to p...
Read More →Why Does the Number of Hoses Matter? If you have ever browsed hookahs online or walked into a shisha shop, you have probably noticed that some hookahs come with one hose and others come with two,...
Read More →What Actually Is Molasses? Molasses gets mentioned constantly in hookah circles but a surprising number of smokers -- even experienced ones -- do not actually know what it is or what it does. Mol...
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