The hookah is more popular in Turkey 1
The hookah in the world is still used in many countries, such as Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Armenia, Arabia, Iraq, Greece, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Yemen, Iran, India, Afghanistan and China. In some of these countries, the hookah is more popular in Turkey.
Exists in Syria a very prosperous manufacturing industry hookahs which are exported in large quantities because they have an impressive variety of types and forms of hookahs to the delight of smokers in many countries in the region.
There are other places where you can test the hookah, which gradually re-emerged in the life of the Turks, mostly due to the interest of young people, to keep traditions alive. Most of these “new” sites offer a “fast” shisha pipe with flavored tobacco imported from Egypt. These sites have become the “brown water pipe”, being a meeting place for students, intellectuals and some celebrities. The “tömbeki, an ancient Turkish tradition is found in very few classic sites of Istanbul.
Today in Egypt, more shisha than in any other country, is savored and enjoyed in every corner of its territory. Egypt produces annually a large number of films, which are spread massively throughout the regional and global scale, it would be interesting to know the percentage of influence they have had them on the changing behavior of smokers in other countries. Such behavior would have brought a revival of narghile in Tunisia, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan. Read the rest of this entry →