Bong

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Few unknown facts about Bong!

• The bong is probably the most popular and beloved
  smoking device in the history of humancannabis
  use.

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• The bong is descendent of the hookah. The word
  bong is derived from the Thai word baung,
  which means cut from bamboo a cylindrical
  wooden tube, pipe or container.

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• Since cannabis is native to Central Asia, and has
  been used throughout history in China, it has
  always been assumed that the bong was invented in
  Asia.
• As the hookah uses water filtration like the
  modern bong, it was always assumed that the bong
  was developed from the hookah

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• Eleven pipes were located in two caves and dated
  to between 1100 and 1400 CE. When researchers
  tested the pipes, they found ample cannabis
  residue. This implies that Bong was also invented
  in Africa.
• In 1924 Alfred Dunhill published a survey of the
  smoking pipes of the world. The book included a
  chapter on the widespread use of a Bong in
  eastern and southern Africa that was a distinct
  design that he believed was the invention of the
  San people.

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• In 1945, archaeologist Mary Leakey found water
  pipe/ bong in Tanzania.
• The theory ignores the fact that cannabis in
  Asian Islamic societies was eaten, rather than
  smoked, before the introduction of the Bong/water
  pipe in the early years of the seventeenth
  century.

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