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“…when they used to tell me I would shorten my life ten years by smoking, they little knew the devotee they were wasting their puerile word upon… they little knew how trivial and valueless I would regard a decade that Read More …
“I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me.” – Walt Whitman Persian smoking a hookah on horseback, ca 1820. Private Collection. Artist : Orlowski (Orlovsky), Alexander Osipovich (1777-1832). Travel hookah in action… Travel Read More …
Fumatore (The Smoker) by Adriaen Brouwer 1605 –1638, undated
Surma tribe by anthony pappone Drinking Smoke The origins of the water pipe have long thought to originate in the middle east or in Asia, but a water pipe technique from Africa may date far earlier… Before the Read More …
Israeli women smoking hookah. Photograph by Paul Schutzer. Israel, May 1960
“When you return to this mundane sphere from your visionary world, you would seem to leave a Neapolitan spring for a Lapland winter – to quit paradise for earth – heaven for hell! Taste the hashish, guest of mine – Read More …
Wilson’s Vaporizing Inhaler- advertisement from 1882
Portrait of a reclining woman with hookah and Persian mirror, Iran, 1901 photo by Antoin Sevruguin
Nautch girl smoking hookah, Mughal, India – late 19th century
Light-winged Smoke! Icarian bird, Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight; Lark without song, and messenger of dawn, Circling above the hamlets as thy nest; Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form Of midnight vision, gathering up thy skirts; By Read More …