The hookah is more popular in Turkey
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.
Today in modern Iran, hookah use continues along with the ancestral lifestyle in Darban, a small town south of Tehran, women alone or accompanied by her husband or mother, going to traditional cafes, sitting them on a carpet, drink chai (tea), eating chunks of melon, smoke the hookah and chat.
India is known for the historical use of “hookah.” in times of British rule, the hookah was very common during the dinner in the casinos of the British officers and their typical chirps could be heard late into the night.
In China, the hookah has a very peculiar looks like a great lighter and usually trimmed, difference is 3 small holes for the snuff them.
