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Title: 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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