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Hookahs (shisha) are kept on the table top of an street cafe in Kharga Oasis in the Western Desert, Egypt. A shisha or sheesha is from the Persian word shishe meaning glass and is the common term for the hookah in Egypt, Sudan and countries of the Arab Peninsula. A hookah is a single or multi-stemmed instrument for vaporizing and smoking flavored tobacco called shisha in which the vapor or smoke is passed through a water basin—often glass-based—before inhalation. Health risks of smoking hookah include exposure to toxic chemicals that are not filtered out by the water and risk of infectious disease when hookahs are shared.

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Hookahs (shisha) are kept on the table top of an street cafe in Kharga Oasis in the Western Desert, Egypt. A shisha or sheesha is from the Persian word shishe meaning glass and is the common term for the hookah in Egypt, Sudan and countries of the Arab Peninsula. A hookah is a single or multi-stemmed instrument for vaporizing and smoking flavored tobacco called shisha in which the vapor or smoke is passed through a water basin—often glass-based—before inhalation. Health risks of smoking hookah include exposure to toxic chemicals that are not filtered out by the water and risk of infectious disease when hookahs are shared.