The vaping community has come a long way since the invention of the first e-cigarette in 2004. Not only have new flavors emerged, to enhance the vaping experience, but several inventions in terms of the vaping equipment that you use have enriched the vaping experience that you can have now. The experience has been so pleasurable that people have gone begun to shift entirely from cigarettes to vapes. This shift has not only been because of the pleasure or distinct flavors of vaping but also because these modern counterparts have been found to be much less harmful than cigarettes, which have been known to cause life-threatening diseases.

However, this modern technology has seldom been compared with the ancestors of cigarettes, i.e., Hookahs. Hookahs are water pipes. A hookah consists of wet tobacco, filled into a head placed on top of a stem that runs to a water bowl at the base. From the stem emerges the long mouthpiece. On top of the head is wrapped a foil and holes are placed on it and top of this foil are placed coals to heat up the damp tobacco.

Just by looking at both the systems you can tell the differences. The significant differences are these:

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Mechanisms:

A vaping kit uses a coil connection with a battery to heat up the liquid and produce dense, aromatic vapors. A hookah, on the other hand, uses coals on top of a foil to heat up wet tobacco (with flavorings) and channel the smoke through the water to the inhaler. The logic behind putting the coals on the foil instead of in the tobacco is to make sure that the tobacco heats up but does not get burnt. These apparent differences also lead to the realization that vapes include no hard tobacco, whereas hookahs are based predominantly on tobacco.

The mechanism also leads to great differences in taste. In terms of flavor, the hookahs are believed to provide a better flavor. However, the flavor from hookah will almost always have a burnt tinge to it due to the close proximity of coals to the tobacco. In terms of cloud production, a good cloud chasing vaping kit is better than any hookahs. In terms of health, hookahs are believed to be much more harmful than vaping kits because the tobacco is not properly treated, and the vapor not filtered.

Purpose:

It is common knowledge that the main purpose of the use of Vapes and E-cigarettes is to quit cigarettes eventually. People use these devices, instead of cigarettes to get their daily fix of nicotine. Hookahs, on the other hand, are, and the main purpose behind their use is a pleasure. Hookahs are also believed to be social devices with several pipes emerging from the same hookah to be used by several people at once, whereas vaping devices are very personal belongings, and although people may share their devices with other people sometime, they are not meant to be used by many people at once.

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