I am going to go out on a limb and bet that if you live in a Western-inspired culture, and yes, I include places like Australia and New Zealand in that group, when you hear the term bong, you probably picture a certain type of counterculture. You almost certainly don’t consider bongs as an optimal tool for enjoying tobacco, but rather certain other dry herbs. Well, if you actually look at how a bong works, there is nothing about it that makes it specifically designed for any particular type of dry plant, and the same reasons that it is preferable for certain other herbal supplements make it quite preferable for tobacco as well.

Let’s talk a little bit first about how these work and why they are healthier than other implementations such as cigarettes, pipes or cigars. A bong is a hollow chamber with an opening at the top, a small regulatory opening shortly lower than that and a diagonal street chamber leading into a reservoir of water inside the main hollow chambe ... Read more »