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[[Image:Hookah.jpg|right|thumb|[[Egypt]]ian hookah]]
A '''Hukah''' (or '''Hookah''', {{lang-hi|हुक्का}}, {{lang-ur|حقہ}} ''hukka'' or '''shisha''', {{lang-ar|شيشة}}, {{lang-he|''נרגילה'', ''Nargilah''}},  {{lang-tr|nargile}}) is a certain kind of [[water pipe]]. It is often made of glass.  Originally, it came from  [[India]].<ref (contracted; show full)essary that I should become a smoker, which was answered with equal gravity, 'Undoubtedly it is, for you might as well be out of the world as out of the fashion. Here everybody uses a hookah, and it is impossible to get on without'.....[I] have frequently heard men declare they would much rather be deprived of their dinner than their hookah.<ref>{{cite book|title=Memoirs of William Hickey|location=London|publisher=Hurst & Blackett|edition=Vol. II|date=1918|pages=p. 136}}</ref>}}


==Health Effects==

A 2005 WHO report states that smoking using a waterpipe poses a serious potential health hazard and is not a safe alternative to cigarette smoking. The average hookah session typically lasts more than 40 minutes, and consists of 50 to 200 inhalations that each range from 0.15 to 0.50 liters of smoke. In an hour-long smoking session of hookah, users consume about 100 to 200 times the volume of smoke of a cigarette.⏎
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