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When Daniel Osborne quit smoking cigarettes, he felt healthy and more alive. But there was a problem, he still liked to smoke. So he started smoking shisha, which is a nontobacco smoking product that you smoke out of a hookah. He did not replace cigarettes because shisha does not contain nicotine and other harsh chemicals. The Stoplight Hookah Lounge more closely mimics the concept of an oxygen bar than any other sort of comparison. The local coal industry and the process they use to produce cleaner energy for the Nation, uses, in essence, a giant hooka. The burnt coal travels through a water filtration system releasing only water vapor and trace amount of smoke, exactly the same way a hookah cleans and filters the already cleaner shisha-tobacco smoke and flavored vapor but with a bonus: mouth-watering flavors like blue raspberry, chocolate covered strawberries, sex on the beach, tropical fruit punch, and orange creamsicle. So then Daniel and his wife, Trisha, decided to open another business, the Hookah Lounge located on Hwy. 59 in Gillette next to Alien Inc. When you walk inside, you will find the displays of the different hookah’s ranging with great variance of size and price. You will also find your display cases of the shisha itself. There are two restaurant style lounge rooms to listen to the radio, chat with friends, and just hang out while smoking on a rented hookah, which are sterilized after every use. There is also a T.V./ Movie/game room with a couch you may not be able to get up from (yea, that comfortable) that you can rent out while smoking from the shisha. There has been some concern in the Campbell County community as to whether the new Hookah Lounge is a “head shop.” “It is not,” said Daniel. “We do not sell a single product that can be used for illegal substances. Smokable illegal substances would ruin the hookahs, which are the only product besides the shisha you smoke we sell.” Mr. Osborne has been working closely with local law enforcement making sure he is within the rules and regulations of the State and local ordinances. Next to his door you will find the rules with a big “WE ID” sign. This writer personally watched him ID
3 different customers. “This is a place where kids (18 and over) can come and enjoy themselves. There is not too much to do for young adults of that age group. We provide a fun, safe, and friendly environment for this group especially, but all are welcome.
What is a Hookah?
A hookah (hukkā or huqqah) also known as a waterpipe, arghile, or qalyān is a single or multi-stemmed instrument forsmoking flavored tobacco called Mu‘assel in which the smoke is passed through a water basin (often glass based) before inhalation. The origin of the hookah is in India and Persia, or at a transition point between the two. The word hookah is a derivative of “huqqa”, which is what the Indians used to call it. According to author Cyril Elgood who does not mention his source, it was Abul-Fath Gilani (d. 1588), a Persian physician at the Indian court of the Mughal emperor Akbar, who “first passed the smoke of tobacco through a small bowl of water to purify and cool the smoke and thus invented the hubble-bubble or hookah.” Nevertheless, a quatrain of Ahli Shirazi (d. 1535) refers to the use of the ḡalyān in Safavid Iran. Smoking the hookah has gained popularity outside of its native region, in India, Iran, Pakistan and the Middle East, and is gaining popularity in North America, South America, Europe, Australia, Southeast Asia, Tanzania and South Africa.
History of Shisha Smoking through a Hookah
Initial traces of hookah smoking have been found in the North Western provinces of India in the states of Rajasthan and Gujarat. In North India, it is a great tradition followed by Gurjars, Jats, Bishnois, Rajputs, etc. According to Cyril Elgood (PP.41, 110) it was in India where the physician Hakim Abu’l-Fath Gilani (d. 1588), at the court of the Mughal emperor AkbarI (1542 - 1605 AD) invented the idea. Following the European introduction of tobacco to Persia and India, Hakim Abu’l-Fath Gilani, who came from Gilan, a province in the north of Iran, migrated to India. He later became a physician in the Mughal court and raised health concerns after smoking tobacco became popular among Indian noblemen. He subsequently envisaged a system which allowed smoke to be passed through water in order to be ‘purified’. Gilani introduced the ḡalyān after Asad Beg, the ambassador ofBijapur, encouraged Akbar I to take up smoking. Following popularity among noblemen, this new device for smoking soon became a status symbol for the Indian aristocracy and gentry. However, a quatrain of Ahlī Shirazi (d. 1535), a Persian poet, refers to the use of the ḡalyān (Falsafī, II, p. 277; Semsār, 1963, p. 15), thus dating its use at least as early as the time of the Shah Ṭahmāsp I. It seems, therefore, that Abu’l-Fath Gilani should be credited with the introduction of the ḡalyān, already in use in Persia, into India.
Owners Daniel and Trisha, with their daughter Madison Grace
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