Please explain hookah lounges to me

[smock]

What's there to explain? You show up, smoke the hookah, and leave.

[CurlyQ284]

The one I went to was in a bar. Booze and hookah in harmony.

It was social, we hung out with our friends for a bit. I didn't smoke it but they did.

[sake]

i have been a few times...
You go in, pick a flavor of hookah, they give you a little mouth piece to put over the mouth part that you smoke out of, and thats it.

also, yeah it's social, but usually you go with someone or a group of people, not just by yourself, and usually they have beer and wine.

[underwaterrhymes]

Of course it's social. Hookah bars serve drinks, too. You don't just smoke the hookah. You hang out. You chat. And you can order different flavors. It's fun.

Now, I do need to add I am not the voice of experience with hookah, as I've smoked it exactly once in Nepal. And I'm apparently terrible at it because everyone was teasing me for my inability to do it correctly.

[Deleted]

Ummm, it's generally a bar that just also sells shisha flavors that you can use with their hookah pipes.

[smock]

Mar 10, 2014 13:31:46 GMT -5 @bluesky said:

Mar 10, 2014 13:30:51 GMT -5 smock said:

What's there to explain? You show up, smoke the hookah, and leave.

So it's not a social thing like going to a bar?  You literally just smoke it and leave?

Sure, it's a social thing. If you asked me to explain bars to you, I would say, you show up, drink a beer, and leave. 

[EmilieMadison]

Mar 10, 2014 13:31:46 GMT -5 @bluesky said:

Mar 10, 2014 13:30:51 GMT -5 smock said:

What's there to explain? You show up, smoke the hookah, and leave.

So it's not a social thing like going to a bar?  You literally just smoke it and leave?

 It's pretty much EXACTLY a social thing like going to a bar...except instead of having a few drinks while you hang out with your friends, it's smoking a hookah (and possibly also having some drinks) while hanging out with friends. 

[Deleted]

Herpes.

[Deleted]

Mar 10, 2014 13:36:50 GMT -5 @bluesky said:

Mar 10, 2014 13:34:55 GMT -5 underwaterrhymes said:

Of course it's social. Hookah bars serve drinks, too. You don't just smoke the hookah. You hang out. You chat. And you can order different flavors. It's fun.

Now, I do need to add I am not the voice of experience with hookah, as I've smoked it exactly once in Nepal. And I'm apparently terrible at it because everyone was teasing me for my inability to do it correctly.

we have several hookah "lounges" around here.  I know many youngers frequent.  Is there an age limit?  how does it affect ones health?

I think you have to be 18 to purchase shisha. It is a water pipe where you inhale tobacco, so in a nutshell it's safer than cigarettes, but probably worse than not smoking anything at all. 

[EmilieMadison]

Mar 10, 2014 13:36:50 GMT -5 @bluesky said:

Mar 10, 2014 13:34:55 GMT -5 underwaterrhymes said:

Of course it's social. Hookah bars serve drinks, too. You don't just smoke the hookah. You hang out. You chat. And you can order different flavors. It's fun.

Now, I do need to add I am not the voice of experience with hookah, as I've smoked it exactly once in Nepal. And I'm apparently terrible at it because everyone was teasing me for my inability to do it correctly.

we have several hookah "lounges" around here.  I know many youngers frequent.  Is there an age limit?  how does it affect ones health?

I assume you would have to be of legal smoking age (18) and if it's also a bar then possibly 21. And smoking anything isn't exactly healthy. I'm not sure why this needs an explanation.

[polka]

It's where hookahs go when they don't want to wait around on street corners.

[Jalapeñomel]

I'm not sure what you are confused about.

[underwaterrhymes]

Mar 10, 2014 13:36:50 GMT -5 @bluesky said:

Mar 10, 2014 13:34:55 GMT -5 underwaterrhymes said:

Of course it's social. Hookah bars serve drinks, too. You don't just smoke the hookah. You hang out. You chat. And you can order different flavors. It's fun.

Now, I do need to add I am not the voice of experience with hookah, as I've smoked it exactly once in Nepal. And I'm apparently terrible at it because everyone was teasing me for my inability to do it correctly.

we have several hookah "lounges" around here.  I know many youngers frequent.  Is there an age limit?  how does it affect ones health?

I'm 39. I've never been to one in the States.

I would guess smoking hookah every day wouldn't be good, but every once in awhile is probably okay.

[janegold]

Mar 10, 2014 13:31:46 GMT -5 @bluesky said:

Mar 10, 2014 13:30:51 GMT -5 smock said:

What's there to explain? You show up, smoke the hookah, and leave.

So it's not a social thing like going to a bar?  You literally just smoke it and leave?

^o)

[VeryViolet]

When I was in Vegas for the first time I walked past a hookah lounge outside. I had never seen a hookah bar before and my mouth hit the sidewalk and I gawked before DH explained that they weren't smoking weed. That is all I have to contribute.

[valetgirl]

Hookah lounges are not my thing because whether or not you partake, you are still subject to second hand smoke. The supposed lesser toxicity of shisha is not substantiated.

[ijack]

Mar 10, 2014 14:24:16 GMT -5 @bluesky said:

Mar 10, 2014 14:18:18 GMT -5 VeryViolet said:

When I was in Vegas for the first time I walked past a hookah lounge outside. I had never seen a hookah bar before and my mouth hit the sidewalk and I gawked before DH explained that they weren't smoking weed. That is all I have to contribute.

That's what I thought they were for LOL.  

We have had quite a bit of criminal activity around the local hookah's.  I'm just curious why more than bars?  

obviously because the people who smoke the hookah are terrorists.

[kellykapowski]

It's very social. The lounges closest to us do not serve alcohol so it's just hookah smoking. People usually play cards or board games. We have stayed there for hours talking and smoking.

I fully believe hookahs are as bad if not worse than smoking cigarettes. But I mean, it's my vice. I'm not a drinker. And I don't smoke cigarettes on the side.

[bonquiqui]

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Mar 10, 2014 14:56:59 GMT -5 bonquiqui said:

Omg I'm drunk and that's really trippy, lol.