Bongs and water pipes

Bongs, or water pipes, use a filtration system involving water to smoke plant products, tobacco and various other substances. They resemble hookahs in their construction, and the results are similar too. Bongs are made from a wide range of materials and come in various shapes and sizes.

You can actually easily make your own bong using any container that is air- and water-tight, by the addition of a screened bowl and slide apparatus, and making a hole in the lower part of the bong to allow air to get in.

The term ‘bong’ has a Thai origin, where it refers to any tubular pipe or container cut from bamboo, and bongs have been used for many centuries across Laos and Thailand.

Users of hookahs and bongs claim that the cooling effect of the water makes smoking through them safer than smoking cigarettes, and incidentally keeps larger molecules out of the smoker’s system.

Independent research however has found that the bongs and hookahs actually are more efficient at filtering out the desired psychoactive elements in herbs and less good at filtering out tars, so it takes longer to achieve the mild sedative effect that the smokers are after.

Glass bongs are preferred by purists because there is no residue that burns off with the smoke as can occur with wood, acrylic, aluminium and other materials used for bong construction.

Acrylic bongs, on the other hand, are cheaper and less likely to break when you and your fellow partakers start to get into the party mood.

Posted in Bongs, Legal Highs, Smoking by jungle at December 3rd, 2010.
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