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What a mess a bit of history of the name and various in .... country they do this... and in ... it is growing in popularity. Sugest most of this is ditched and the how it works moved to the top —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.36.75.21 (talk) 10:49, August 30, 2007 (UTC)

Picture

The Hookah

Is there no way to get a better picture than this? Intrigue 20:35, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I have a problem with the second (tobacco burning) picture as well.

The tobacco looks like a freshly posited cow patty. --Philopedia 28 June 2005 15:17 (UTC)

The pictures in this article are unprofessional. Why are there so many pictures of unrelated objects such as the caterpillar in Alice in Wonderland. So it involves a hookah? Big deal, the user might as well use Google image search.

ok, explain to me, slowly, like I was a small child, why the caterpillar from alice in wonderland is unrelated. Please. I, personnaly, would probably pick that as the BEST, western, referance to popular culture possible. It seems to me to be the first thing 90% of north americans think of when they hear "hookah" seems like a good reason to include it, and, gawd damn it, its a fookin picture, the more the merrier. If you think another would be more informative, add it, but quit your bitchin, it's childish.

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, Matt Jordan wrote:

Hi Keith,

I'm a huge fan of wikipedia and I appreciate what you do for the organization. Off of the "hookah <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hookah>" page, I posted a link (yesterday) to a Hookah History page on my website, hookahcompany.com. Later on that day, I noticed the link was removed and two other links were placed there. One of the two websites is a commercial website that is simliar to ours, which is called smoking-hookah.com. What qualifies smoking-hookah.com <http://smoking-hookah.com/> and not hookahcompany.com <http://www.hookahcompany.com/> as a valid link?

You removed those two other sites to put in your own commercial site instead. I consider that to be vandalism and until other contributors suggest otherwise I'm not going to let it stick.

It is also the second time you have done this. I for one would appreciate it if you would at very least take your form of "advertising" to a different website.

KeithTyler

This is really old, but since I've come across this page again in the search engines and it is public, I just wanted to set the record straight that we didn't remove any other websites from wikipedia. Perhaps it was another hookah website. It however was not hookahcompany. -Matt Jordan

Hookah Hub ( <a href="www.smoking-hookah.com/">Hookah - Hooka - Huka - Hookah Hub</a> ) would appreciate inclusion as well, thank you.

Since Wikipedia is such a good source for Google to show and discuss what a Hookah is, it is considered a very good resource from a search engine optimization standpoint to have a link from Wikipedia's domain. The problem is you have allowed a few sites post their link and now they have a very high advantage over others. CustomHookahs.com is a very valid resource for Hookah and has a Hookah Bar Directory integrated with Google Maps. This is useful to a lot of people looking for Hookah Bars in their state, but they have no idea where it is or the contact information. We allow them to see that information and get directions using Google Maps. I would appreciate if CustomHookahs.com was also appreciated as a valid resource and have a link posted on the Hookah page.

Armen Shagmirian

section organization

does anyone really believe the etymology should be explained before the device's function? i think it's far more important to describe what the heck the thing actually is before going into the history of its name. etymology is more "fun to know," whereas the function is something that people will actually look to an encyclopedia for.

editorial content

"...and is primarily used by those that have only experienced this particular aspect of Middle Eastern culture in its cheaper, commercialized form in the West."

aka American retards who don't know what they're talking about, and aren't oldschool and cultured like me. This paragraph has inappropriate (condescending) tone.

If there are no protests, I'm going to go ahead and delete that paragraph. It adds nothing, and contradicts Shisha.

hookah userbox

Fellow hookah enthusiasts and smokers we need to get a Hookah userbox can someone please make one. So that we can proclaim "This user smokes Hookah and is proud."

Hashish vs Tobacco........too much focus on tobacco

This article seems a lot more focused on tobacco hookah smoking when in fact hashish (cannabis resin) was the original product that was smoked. Hashish has never refered to tobacco and I will modify this as well. Zachorious 05:56, 2 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Good point. This article claims that the hookah was first used for tobacco, whereas the Wikipedia article on tobacco reports that tobacco didn't reach the eastern hemisphere until the European conquest of the western hemisphere. The Wikipedia tobacco article also reports that a Persian word similar to tobacco may refer to certain herbs; perhaps these may have been used in a hookah. AgedCare14 (talk) 17:24, 25 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

its just because today its mostly use for tobacco, as hashish has its own things to be smoked in 79.177.126.11 (talk) 16:37, 17 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]