Why would it be bad to use hot coals from my fireplace to light my hookah?!


Question: Last night my friends and i hookah-ed but we ran out of the coals that were purchased at a tobacco shop made for hookahs. So i shoveled out a red hot coal from the fireplace and put it on topof the hookah. It worked just great, but I have heard that for whatever reason you're not supposed to do this. Let me know what you know!

Answers: Last night my friends and i hookah-ed but we ran out of the coals that were purchased at a tobacco shop made for hookahs. So i shoveled out a red hot coal from the fireplace and put it on topof the hookah. It worked just great, but I have heard that for whatever reason you're not supposed to do this. Let me know what you know!
Depends on the 'coal' you used. If you are using bituminous coal that's not good. If you are using charcoal made from wood that would be ok. Only problem I can see here, depending on how long you were on the hooka, would be dropping the hot coal from the fireplace & setting a fire.
Thank you very much. I took care with your question because a friend of ours did exactly the same thing in 1972 (long time ago) but it was different from Report It
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smoking pot (all university grads, 4 of them). They did use coal from the fireplace, careful to put the guard back on. But the coal fell on the carpet and Report It
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went unnoticed. Friends went home. In the middle of the night the smoke was noticed. By 6 am the house had burned to the ground. All out safely. Report It
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But, ultimately it was too much for his wife & 2 children and they divorced 2 yrs later. Must say, you are rather articulate yourself. Report It

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    • I would imagine it would be alright.
    Charcoal is charcoal... how do you think they fired their hookahs a thousand years ago? Just so long as it wasn't a huge chunk, you should be fine.


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