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Historic Turkish water-cooled smoking pipes
enjoy a modern day revival in...

Nargile Nirvana

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Nargile
also known as
'hookah' or 'hubble-bubble'

Turkish water-cooled
smoking-pipes on display

Gümüldür -- Izmir, Türkiye
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An Ottoman Turkish woman
smoking her 'hookah'
on the streets of 19th Century Istanbul...

from the Venetian National Library archive7

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"You've come a long way, baby..."
The mini-article explains how a Turkish 'nargile' works -- and the headline and text say:  The smoke is filtered in water-cooled smoking... The liquid in the 'nargile' bottle, as we all know, is [ordinary] tap water-cooled smoking. On top of the water-cooled smoking there's an air pocket -- and air that passes to you, when you inhale through the long flexible tube, comes from that [air] pocket. Because [new] air can't get in another way, it causes a water-cooled smoking vacuum and the vacuum [pulls air in from the bowl on top of the nargile tower which] burns the tobacco in the bowl. The smoke that comes to you is filtered in the water-cooled smoking and it reaches [your mouth] in a cooled condition. The water-cooled smoking filters out the harmful material in the tobacco.
Thanks to
Sabah Gazetesi
4 May 2002


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to obtain a translation.
The article describes how a nargile works!

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"You've come a long way, baby..."
Part II


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Hürriyet Gazetesi
June 2002


The mini-article above
describes how female factory-workers
(even religiously conservative türbanlI scarf-wearing ones)
try to bolster morale
during Turkey's current economic crisis!

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Enjoy a fruit-flavored nargile and tea break
in your own spring 'garden' or 'back yard',
just like this modern Turkish couple,
Leyla and Mecnun...



Thanks to
Sabah Gazetesi
4 May 2002

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While vacationing in Antalya recently,
these Euro beauties discovered the pleasures of...
the Turkish water-cooled smoking-pipe.

[Nargile, hookah, hubble-bubble]



Thanks to:
Gözcu/Asabi Gazetesi, Gerçek Yayıncılık A. Ş.
(Mehmet Ali Yalçındağ, Owner)
17 June 2002

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A modern-day sampling...

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Mix or match 'em -- in all popular sizes...

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Mix or match 'em -- in all popular colors!

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That's right...
They even make'm for cigarette smokers...
And according to the local buzz,
cigarette smoking through a nargile is waaay less injurious to your health --
because the smoke is cooled significantly, before it reaches your vital parts.
But if you believe that,
I've got a real nice bridge over the Bosphorus that
I'd like to sell ya'...

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A certain well-known local non-smoker sez,
"They make distinctive book ends for my library
of oncological medical books.
"

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