A hookah (Farsi: قلیان Urdu: حقّہ (Nastaleeq), IPA: [ˌɦʊqqaː]; likewise observe different names) is a solitary or multi-stemmed instrument for vaporizing and smoking enhanced tobacco (called Mu'assel), or some of the time cannabis or hashish, whose vapor or smoke is gone through a water bowl—frequently glass-based—before inward breath.
Wellbeing dangers of smoking hookah incorporate introduction to harmful chemicals that are not sifted through by the water[4] and danger of irresistible infection when hookahs are shared.
There are two hypotheses with respect to the beginning of the hookah. The first is that the waterpipe was created by Irfan Shaikh of the Mughal Empire, a doctor of Akbar; on the other hand, it could begin in Safavid tradition of Persia, from where it inevitably spread toward the east into the Indian subcontinent amid that time. The hookah or Argyleh soon achieved Egypt and the Levant amid the Ottoman administration from neighboring Safavid tradition, where it turned out to be exceptionally famous and where the system was later culminated.
The word hookah is a subordinate of "huqqa", a Hindustani expression. Outside its local district, hookah smoking has picked up prevalence all through the world, particularly among more youthful individuals, to a great extent because of foreigners from the Levant, where it is particularly mainstream.