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Another way to do it is to bubble the air through water. As a kid, we did an experiment where a cigarette was "smoked" by attaching a tube to the cigarette filter, the tube exited at the bottom of a flask filled with water, and a pump would suck the air from the top of the flask.

It didn't take long before the water would turn black.

Quite a turnoff for wannabee smokers, which was the obvious point of the experiment.

It's the same idea as the Rainbow vacuum cleaner, which uses a tank of water as its filter.



Another way to do it is to bubble the air through water. As a kid, we did an experiment where a cigarette was "smoked" by attaching a tube to the cigarette filter, the tube exited at the bottom of a flask filled with water, and a pump would suck the air from the top of the flask.

"We built a bong and discovered that bong water is really nasty."


Thanks for the great laugh. I never thought of that!

Just think of that nasty bong water being what the smoke does to the fluids in your lungs.


That's essentially a Shisha you built there, so smoking that way is a thing ;) The tobacco is different, as is the heat source, but I can confirm that the water still turns rather unpleasant.




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