Where can I buy a hookah and tobacoo in Toronto?

Question

I'd like to find a real (i.e., not online) store that sells hookahs (preferably Egyptian) and shisha tobacco in Toronto. Can anyone help?

Answer 1

Don't. Hookah tobacco is acid tobacco (it is a function of the fermentation process) like cigarettes and you have to inhale it to get the nicotine absorbed in your body. As you may...um...have heard its unhealthy. The reason companies make acid tobacco is that when smoke is inhaled, strong brand loyalties develop and you don't switch easily....repeat sales are the benefit for the hookah tobacco company...same for cigarettes. What you get out of it is lung cancer.

Regular pipe tobacco and cigars produce alkaline tobacco smoke which does not have to be inhaled, does not generate firm brand loyalty, and though not healthy either, is nowhere near as bad a smoking hookah so far as I know.

It is not so cool as a hookah but smoke a pipe or cigars.

Me. I don't smoke.

Answer 2

Than answer above is good.

Tobacco has a high citric acid component naturally, (more than lemons)  and it  normally taken out during production.

Alkalines such as ammonia compounds are added commercially to free the nicotine in many products.

If you really must purchase,  try the Toronto Hemp Company, on Yonge Street ...whatever you want they will have, or will get it for you.

www.torontohemp.com

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If you wish to search  farther afield, try the Afficianado Cigar in Edmonton, for a full range of hookah equipment.

www.afficianado,com