so i bought a narghile (or hookah) last night...

[Nev]

it was SO great...my friend and i stayed up talking and listening to music and smoking until four in the morning, then i woke up at eight and i felt really relaxed...

the flavored tobacco is much smoother (especially filtered through water) than cigarettes. i know it's all bad for me and shit, sort of, kind of, but it was really very damned nice. constructive criticism only, please (i had to listen to a lot of my friend's lectures when i told him i was planning to smoke it alone this weekend).

[Torgo]

Why the lecture, especially if you're just using tobacco?

[Nev]

he doesn't want me to get hooked, or run away from my problems...

/me shrugs

i'm not too worried about it

EDIT: I'm loving it, dude. smoking the narghila, listening to chrono cross...this is good life, for me.

[Gentz]

Tobacco? Bah! Why not stuff that mother with some real greenery? The stickiest of the icky! :)

[Nev]

see my earlier post about legality on the salvia thing, also i just never have gotten much out of pot. might be worth another look now that i'm doing it with love though.

i'm doing a blend of mint and jasmine tobacco now and it's quite wonderful.

[Zeus]

In the Arab world, they're called "argili". They're ridiculously popular. At the end of the day, there's very little nicotine in most of the tobaccos, and not too much tar, so it's much, much better on a casual basis than cigs. Plus, they look very, very cool (some do) and are a great social item. I know my family used the snot out of the three that we have during my wedding. PLus, most of it smells nice, which is great for us non-smokers.

Like everything, just don't overdue it, or it will start causing health problems. A little here and there and it's fine, much better than the other tobacco alternatives

[Nev]

i think that's a good maxim in general. i'll do my best!

oh btw zeus = "narghile" = "arghili". it's a difference of regional accent.

[Blotus]

Gnarley?

[Nev]

just so you all get the dark side of it too and don't think it's all wine and narghile, i am having mad headaches right now from having smoked too much today. but i have faith it'll pass.

EDIT: 2am... Wow. Never let it be said that drugs have to be illegal to fuck you up. I smoked so much yesterday I passed out at about 7pm, now it's 2am and I'm WIDE awake...I think.

[Torgo]

Heh, the downside (or upside, at times) of waterpipes is that they cool the smoke so much that you can take in way more than you're used to.

[Nev]

Heh, the downside (or upside, at times) of waterpipes is that they cool the smoke so much that you can take in way more than you're used to.

i love it. i'd like to find a good website on the chemistry of smoking.