It is one of the popular entertainment and hangout activities, mostly among youngsters and men in Azerbaijan, especially in Baku.
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Initial traces of hookah smoking have been found in the North Western provinces of India in the states of Rajasthan and Gujarat.
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According to Cyril Elgood, it was Abu’l-Fatḥ Gīlānī, a Persian physician at the court of the Mughal emperor Akbar I, 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."
Mu‘assel, "shisha tobacco" shortened to just "shisha" can, in the West, mean the molasses-based tobacco concoction smoked in a hookah
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