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Water pipe physics: cooling smoke so your lungs forgive what your brain just decided.
means A water pipe used to filter and cool smoke (traditionally for smoking cannabis or tobacco) through a chamber of water before inhalation.
from From Thai 'baung,' a cylindrical wooden tube cut from bamboo, traditionally used for smoking in Thailand and Laos. The word entered English slang in the mid-20th century as Western drug culture adopted both the device and its name, swapping bamboo for glass and plastic but keeping the term.
- etymology
- from Thai baung, a bamboo tube
- mechanism
- water filters and cools the smoke, not toxins
- myth busted
- filtration removes little actual THC or tar
- design range
- from gas station glass to museum-grade blown art