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1.Decide what you will you use your hookah for. Is it going to stay at your house or are you going to travel with it? Do you have space to store it? Are you going to use it at parties/let other people handle it? Do you plan to smoke alone or with others? Do you mind upgrading later on? 2.Size matters. Well at least somewhat. There is a constant debate over whether bigger hookahs are better than smaller ones. In truth, there is not much difference, as one of the articles in the resources explains. 3.Glass is the most popular and traditional hookah base material. However, acrylic hookahs are becoming more popular. They are essential unbreakable, which is good if your hookah is going to be used at parties or if you plan to travel with it. 4.If you are going to smoke alone, a one-hose hookah is fine. However, hookah smoking is a traditionally social activity, and thus you will want at least 2 hoses if you plan to smoke with more than just 2 people. Most stems have the option to add another hose with an adaptor, which is nice, but 3-hose and 4-hose hookahs are much more expensive, because the stem is different. 5.Auto-sealing is something to consider. This means that there is a ball-bearing in the hose adaptor (where it attaches to the stem). This prevents smoke/air escaping while the other person drags on their hose. Before auto-sealing hoses, people would have to cover the tip of their hose with the their finger. 6.Alot of the time, you can get a great deal on a beginner hookah package. These come with everything you need to begin smoking. Hookah-shisha.com is one of the best sites out there to buy hookahs, because every hookah they sell comes with free premium shisha tobacco, tongs, grommets, bags, and other accessories. 7.A good-sized hookah is around 18-30 inches. This is the size that most people can comfortably store and bring places. A hookah that is going to sit and look pretty can obviously be bigger and more decorative, but something like this just isn't practical for every-day use.

Health Effects Hookah smokers are at risk for developing the same kinds of cancers that affect cigarette smokers. The smoke from a water pipe contains carcinogens linked with lung, bladder and oral cancers. The charcoal used to heat the tobacco also contributes high levels of heavy metals and carbon monoxide to the hookah smoke. Secondary Effects Along with the side effects of direct inhalation, hookah smokers are at risk of contracting tuberculosis, hepatitis, herpes and other contagious diseases from the use of a shared mouthpiece. Pregnant women are also at risk for delivering low-birth weight babies who run a high risk of respiratory disease. Secondhand smoke from a hookah is also harmful as it contains the same toxins inhaled by the smokers. A Safer Alternative? A great deal of confusion is centered over whether smoking the hookah is a safe alternative to cigarette smoking. In short, the answer is "no." According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, hookah smokers inhale between 100 and 200 times the volume of smoke in a single cigarette during a typical one-hour hookah smoking session. Because of the longer smoking time and the depth of inhalation, hookah smokers may absorb even higher concentrations of toxins and cancer causing substances than cigarette smokers. The hookah also delivers the addictive drug nicotine.

What is hookah? A hookah is a single or multi-stemmed instrument for vaporizing and smoking flavored tobacco called shisha in which the vapor or smoke is passed through a water basin-often glass-based-before inhalation.Health risks of smoking hookah include exposure to toxic chemicals that are not filtered out by the water[4] and risk of infectious disease when hookahs are shared.The origin of the waterpipe is from the time of the Safavid dynasty in Persia (Iran),from where it eventually spread to the east into India during that time.The hookah or Argyleh also soon reached Egypt and the Levant during the Ottoman dynasty from neighbouring Safavid Iran, where it became very popular and where the mechanism was later perfected. The word hookah is a derivative of "huqqa", an Arabic term.[Outside its native region, smoking the hookah has gained popularity in North America,South America, Europe, Australia, Southeast Asia, Tanzania, and South Africa, largely due to immigrants from the Levant, where it is especially popular, who introduce it to younger people. Operation The jar at the bottom of the hookah is filled with water sufficient to submerge a few centimeters of the body tube, which is sealed tightly to it. Deeper water will only increase the inhalation force needed to use it. Tobacco or tobacco-free molasses are placed inside the bowl at the top of the hookah. Often the bowl is covered with perforated tin foil or a metal screen and coal placed on top. The foil or screen separates the coal and the tobacco, which minimizes inhalation of coal ash with the smoke and reduces the temperature the tobacco is exposed to, in order to prevent burning the tobacco directly. When one inhales through the hose, air is pulled through the charcoal and into the bowl holding the tobacco. The hot air, heated by the charcoal vaporizes the tobacco without burning it.[verification needed] The vapor is passed down through the body tube that extends into the water in the jar. It bubbles up through the water, losing heat, and fills the top part of the jar, to which the hose is attached. When a smoker inhales from the hose, smoke passes into the lungs, and the change in pressure in the jar pulls more air through the charcoal, continuing the process. If the hookah has been lit and smoked but has not been inhaled for an extended period, the smoke inside the water jar may be regarded as "stale" and undesirable. Stale smoke may be exhausted through the purge valve, if present. This one-way valve is opened by the positive pressure created from gently blowing into the hose. It will not function on a multiple-hose hookah unless all other hoses are plugged. Sometimes one-way valves are put in the hose sockets to avoid the need to manually plug hoses. Article From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hookah#Operation