A '''hookah''' ([[Hindustani language|Hindustani]]: हुक़्क़ा <small>([[Devanagari]])</small>, حقّہ <small>([[Nastaʿlīq script|Nastaleeq]])</small> ''huqqā'')<ref name="Cyclopædia">{{cite book|url = httphttps://books.google.com/books?id=yvNWAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA99&dq=hookah+india&hl=en&ei=6GE5TPG9CoL78AaVqfinBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CE4Q6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=hookah%20india&f=false|title = The cyclopaedia of India and of eastern and southern Asia, Volume 2|publisher = [[Bernard Quaritch]]|quote=HOOKAH. Hindi. The Indian pipe and apparatus for smoking.|accessdate = 2007–08–01}}</ref><ref name="Encyclopædia Britannica">{{cite web|url =http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/HIG_HOR/HOOKAH_the_English_spelling_of_.html| title = Hookah|publisher = Encyclopædia Britannica|accessdate = 2008-04-08}}</ref> or '''waterpipe'''<ref name=who-ad>or '''shisha''' [http://www.who.int/entity/tobacco/global_interaction/tobreg/Waterpipe%20recommendation_Final.pdf WHO Study Group on Tobacco Product Regulation (TobReg) an advisory note "Waterpipe tobacco smoking:health effects, research needs and recommended actions by regulators", 2005]</ref> is a single or multi-stemmed (often glass-based) instrument for [[smoking]] [[tobacco]] in which the smoke is cooled and filtered by passing through water.<ref>{{cite book|publisher=Harper's|title=The History and Mystery of Tobacco|date=June 1855}}</ref> Originally from [[India]],<ref name="Cyclopædia"/><ref name="Wealth">{{cite book|url = httphttps://books.google.com/books?id=Hm1XAAAAMAAJ&q=hookah+india&dq=hookah+india&hl=en&ei=6GE5TPG9CoL78AaVqfinBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAw|title = The Wealth of India|quote=The smoking of hookah and hubble-bubble started in India during the reign of the great Moghul emperor, Akbar.|publisher = Council of Scientific & Industrial Research|accessdate = 2007–08–01}}</ref><ref name="CGNS Hookah India">{{cite web|url = http://www.commongroundnews.org/article.php?id=1692&lan=en&sid=1&sp=0| title = Beyond the Smoke, There is Solidarity Among Cultures|publisher = Victoria Harben for Common Ground News Service|accessdate = 2008-12-05}}</ref><ref name="Metromode">{{cite web|url = http://www.metromodemedia.com/features/MetroDetroitHookah0097.aspx| title = Metro Detroit's Hookah Scene|publisher = Terry Parris Jr for Metromode Media|accessdate = 2008-12-27}}</ref><ref name="The colors of India">{{cite web|url = http://www.thecolorsofindia.com/hookah/hookah-history.html| title = Hookah History|publisher = Colors of India|accessdate = 2008-12-05}}</ref><ref name="Hookah India Chapman">{{cite book |last1= Rousselet|first1= Louis|title= India and Its Native Princes: Travels in Central India and in the Presidencies of Bombay and Bengal|edition= Reprint - Asian Educational Services 2005|year= 2005|origyear= 1875|publisher= Chapman and Hall|location= London|language= English - UK|isbn= 8-1206-1887-4|page= 290|chapter= XXVII - The Ruins of Futtehpore}}</ref> hookah has gained popularity, especially in the [[Middle East]] and is gaining popularity in [[North America]], [[Europe]], [[Australia]] and [[Brazil]].<ref name="Encyclopædia Britannica"/>
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