Hookah pipes popular with teens

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Nov 9, '09 · 3:35 PM1,556

University of Florida News - New study measures hookah use among Florida teens

Rooted in Middle Eastern culture, hookah pipes burn charcoal and tobacco, also known as shisha. Air is drawn through the tobacco and into the pipe, where it passes through water....There are at least 100 hookah lounges in Florida and most have opened in the past few years, Barnett said. Hookah is typically shared in groups and smoked with sweetened, flavored tobacco.

I always assumed hookah = pot. Hookah lounges? Anybody seen one?

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SoWal Insider

Nov 10, '09 · 2:30 PM#27

Several Hookah lounges in Atlanta. Not really my thing though. They were very popular when they first started showing up about 5-7 years ago but I haven't heard of anyone going in the last few years -- maybe because I "aged out" of the crowd that would go!

Where in Atlanta?

Great, something else to worry about. I just quizzed the young one. He knew all about it.

I just found out (by way of my niece, thankfully not my son) what salvia was. Now this. Truth be known, salvia scares me a hell of a lot more than hookah does.

Perhaps I should just stick with margaritas and pudding shots.

Salvia - I've heard a thing or two about that stuff. Sends you into another parallel for certain, evidently! :blink:

SoWal Insider

Nov 10, '09 · 2:36 PM#28

Hookah just sounds like something you cough up.

SoWal Expert

Nov 10, '09 · 3:00 PM#29

Salvia has alot of different varieties and good uses too - making it even more unfortunate that it is being outlawed in many places.

Sad that a cure for Alzheimer's might be derailed or lost because morons found yet another way to get high.

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SoWal Expert

Nov 10, '09 · 3:10 PM#30

Hookah just sounds like something you cough up.

SoWal Insider

Nov 10, '09 · 3:37 PM#31

Salvia has alot of different varieties and good uses too - making it even more unfortunate that it is being outlawed in many places.

Sad that a cure for Alzheimer's might be derailed or lost because morons found yet another way to get high.

I did not know that salvia was illegal :idontno:

Dangitall, I learn a lot in rain storms! :lol:

SoWal Expert

Nov 10, '09 · 3:45 PM#32

[FONT=ARIAL, HELVETICA]From the DEA:[/FONT]

[FONT=ARIAL, HELVETICA]Salvia divinorum and salvinorin A are not currently controlled under the CSA.
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[FONT=ARIAL, HELVETICA]As of October 2009, fourteen states have enacted legislation placing regulatory controls on Salvia divinorum and/or salvinorin A. Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Virginia, Ohio, and Nebraska have placed Salvia divinorum and/or salvinorin A into schedule I of state law.
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[FONT=ARIAL, HELVETICA]California, Louisiana, Maine, North Carolina, and Tennessee enacted legislation restricting the distribution of the plant. Legislative bills proposing regulatory controls died in Alabama, Alaska, Indiana, South Carolina, Maryland, Texas, West Virginia and Georgia.[/FONT]

[FONT=ARIAL, HELVETICA]Salvinorin A and/or Salvia divinorum have been placed under regulatory controls in Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Italy, Japan, Spain, and Sweden.[/FONT]

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beats on hood

Nov 10, '09 · 4:35 PM#33

I guess my age is showing. I just don't get the hookah thing.

It must be a generation gap. Maybe like how I can't understand why daughter won't use an umbrella when it is raining heavily or won't wear a coat on really cold days because she says it's not cool? Today the rain in Georgia from Ida was intense, but I didn't see one student with an umbrella. :idontno:

Not a brains thing -- even my high SAT students had no umbrella today. :confused: