But the principle is same – these water-pipes allow you to smoke flavoured tobacco as it is bubbled through water. Maybe you know it simply as hubble-bubble. Sharing a water-pipe is thought to ...

Born in India in the 1400s, the hookah — also known as “nargeeleh,” “nargile” or “hubble-bubble” (for the muted burbling noise it makes) — is a water pipe used to smoke tobacco.

“The government didn’t realize how harmful it will be,” said 21-year-old Shaz Ahmed, a recent university graduate and avid smoker of the liquid cooled shisha pipe, or hookah. “Businesses ...

Iranian authorities are trying to snuff out one of the country's favourite pastimes, the smoking of hubble-bubble water pipes, whose apple and citrus tobaccos waft through most Persian restaurants ...

Bars where small groups of smokers -- primarily young men -- hang out to chat and puff on water pipes have flourished in Bamako in recent years. Mali is an overwhelmingly Muslim country ...

But there's a storm brewing in the world of the hubble bubble pipe. Presenter, Konnie Huq investigates. "I'd heard that shisha is much safer than smoking cigarettes, doesn't the water purify the ...