My first(and last and never again!) smoking experience.

After reading @Kushyzee post titled "Do you smoke?" I stopped to think after reading the title and asked myself "does he mean cigarettes, pipe, cigar or shisha?"I know, the title is quite straightforward right? It's simply," do you smoke or not" without any specifications but somehow, I still wanted to confirm because I felt kind of guilty for some reason I don't understand.

The only thing I have smoked in my whole life is hookah also known as shisha. Although when we were kids, we used to cut the stem of a dried plant with a spongy core, we would make a hole through the spongy core and lit it at one end pretending they were cigarettes, hah! The good old days... But that doesn't count right or does it?

Anyways, my first experience with something smoky is when I was still in my first year of Uni. It happened when the brother of my room-mate gave her his shisha pen to charge for him since the boys' hostel didn't have power supply at the time. They had been having light problems for a long time. I was fascinated by it because of how beautiful it looked and just like a pen, it had a somewhat pointed end and some threads which you can twist to disassemble it or put the shisha flavor. My fascination soon gave way to curiosity and I found myself wanting to try it. It turned out my friend had some shisha flavor with her meaning she smokes it too, we waited until it was dark and cold to make it more "enjoyable". When it was dark, we retrieved it from her locker, it was charged to 100% which was awesome! I watched as this friend of mine professionally disassembled it, put some flavor in it(banana flavor) , screwed it back, switched it on and took the first drag. She blew concentrated smoke into the air, the fresh smell, the density of the smoke was just what it was.... fascinating! She took more drags and even proceeded to creating interesting patterns with the smoke, again it was what it was...fascinating! I took the first drag and surprisingly I didn't choke on the smoke but blew it out while swallowing some unconsciously. The banana smell was nice and somehow reminded me of when we used to pick mango in farms as kids, of course bananas have nothing to so with mangos but my brain still found a way of associating them together. I took some more drags, savour the smoke before I blew out. It was an interesting experience.

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For those who do not know what it looks loke, this is it above. This is however the much modern type of shisha which is the shisha pen. As you can see it looks like a pen. The colorful container contains the flavour and above it is the charger.

The Shisha pot or hookah is the more traditional one and is said to have been in use since the time of Pharaoh, now isn't that like thousands of years ago? Well it looks like it would be in existence for another thousand years to come as it is gaining more popularity than never before.

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Shisha is really cool stuff and can make parties more fun. However after taking it for the first time I vowed never to take it again. Personally I have nothing against it or those who take it but shisha is dangerous stuff. Overtime, it can lead tp serious respiratory complications because the dense smoke it produces can deposit in the lining of the lungs, making it hard for the alveoli to exchange oxygen. It can also cause angina and even stroke and heart attack. If you must take shisha, do it occasionally or better still, stay away from it all together.

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