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Stoplight Hookah Lounge and Oxygen Bar By Preston Bullard
The Stoplight Hookah Lounge and Oxygen Bar… You’ve all seen it there on the side of South Douglas, chilling inside Alien Ink, just across the way from our favorite loaf and jug. But do you know what a Hookah is? How about an Oxygen Bar? Do you know what we do in there? I’m guessing no. Before I can really jump into what it is we do for our community, I have to discuss a few things with you first. So, we all know how bad cigarettes are for us, right? Terrible! We see it in magazines, we hear it on the radio and we have television commercials showing children crying for their lost loved ones. Seriously, they tell us how bad they are for us right on the side of the carton. In other countries, they put diseased organs on the back and sides of the pack. They’re talking about doing the very same thing here in the States. How bad these things are for us certainly isn’t lost on anyone. So why do we keep smoking them? Recent studies say that as many as 40,500,000 (40.5 MILLION) adults smoke in the United States alone. That’s one out of five people. Why is that? Because they make us feel good! That nicotine high is unlike anything else, isn’t it? Calms us down when we’re upset, mellows us out when we feel fine. In all honesty, I’m smoking a cigarette right now. It’s keeping me sane at work – we all know the feeling. Regardless of these facts, they’re still terrible for you. But many of us just have that craving. And we have for nearly seven thousand years.
Tobacco wasn’t always prepackaged and sold in little sticks. It wasn’t always a stress reliever or something to do when we’re bored while driving. No, not at all. Tobacco was once Sacred! And I’m here to tell you how tobacco is SUPPOSED to be ingested. The oldest way to ingest tobacco is in an ancient device known as a ‘Hookah,’ a seven thousand year old vaporizer. Vaporizer… Now why does that sound familiar? It should. E-cigarettes are all the craze right now, it vaporizes the nicotine and has none of the harmful smoke and people love it. It’s far less harmful, it smells good and it tastes amazing. That’s just because we’re going back to the way it used to be and you know how it goes, don’t try to fix something that isn’t broken. First, let me explain what a hookah is. A hookah is a water pipe, born in the Mesopotamian Peninsula nearly SEVEN THOUSAND years ago. It can be anywhere from a few inches to a few feet high. From the sides extend one to eight hoses. At the top, a small ceramic bowl is filled with a form of tobacco known as ‘Shisha.’ Shisha is long cut tobacco, much like you’d find in an old fashioned pipe, with a major difference. Shisha tobacco is made by soaking tobacco leaves, stems and roots in molasses. Yes, molasses. More specifically, FRUIT molasses. Over the top of this ceramic bowl, an aerated filter is placed. This filter can be ceramic, steel or tin foil. Atop this filter you place two to four glowing hot coals. When you pull air through
the hoses, air is forced across these coals, through the filter and across the tobacco. The heat is enough to boil the moisture in the leaves and molasses simultaneously, (But not burn it) releasing it into the air you’re pulling through the device. The nicotine and sugar laden air then rushes down a pipe, through cold water, where it instantly turns into cold steam, up the hose, across your tongue and into your lungs, leaving you with a delicious flavor and a lingering sensation of overall well-being. Now… Do you know WHY vaporizing nicotine is less harmful than smoking cigarettes or even long cut tobacco out of a pipe? These companies can talk all they want on television, use their subtleties to get you to try it… But what do you really know about it? WHY is it so much better than smoking? Beyond the obvious of Carbon Monoxide being bad for you, and having to burn the tobacco to get the nicotine out of it... Carbon Monoxide bonds to nicotine and your blood much differently than oxygen does. You see, your body recognizes carbon monoxide as a poison. (Not to mention all the other stuff they cram into cigarettes during processing.) It induces headaches, coughing and in severe cases, nausea. Your body is saying “FIRE! GET ME AWAY!” Where there’s smoke, there’s fire, and your body knows this is true. It’s a built in evolutionary response that has helped us to survive.
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