I don't own a hookah, but I have aligned myself with people that do...in part because I really enjoy it. In my 20s I lived next door to a nice couple that loved to get drunk and invite me over to smoke their hookah. I would bring a little weed, but they were mostly boozers so they hit it and quit it. Many a drunken night were spent sitting on their couch trying different flavors, me high as a kite, them stumbling drunk actually having pretty stimulating conversation...or so it seemed at the time
That drunk son of a bitch burnt himself on one of those coals every weekend, I swear. I would offer to handle that every time and he would look at me and say, "2_paranoid...I-I-I gotdis ok I have this under the -hiccup- control". Another buddy had a sort of smaller hookah that we would bring down to the beach every now and again to smoke and chill out in the sun.