The primary activity of nightclubs is to provide a safe venue for people to come into the city and enjoy dancing, whether they take drugs or not. Many complaints have been received from young people who are hassled in this environment. The venues attract organised violent crime and the owner may eventually lose control of the actual club; they would be there in all but name. Profits are directed away from the owners to criminals within the establishment.
Sometimes these problems lead to the ultimate closure by the regulatory authorities, and investors may be dissuaded from clubs and even the city itself. The nightclubs in the city of Liverpool have been one of the lynchpins for the economic regeneration of the city. Similarly, this happens in Eastern Europe when people want to invest in the infrastructure but are then scared away by organised crime. This happens on a smaller scale in other cities in England and Wales, yet it results in job losses that have a negative effect on the local economy
Sometimes these problems lead to the ultimate closure by the regulatory authorities, and investors may be dissuaded from clubs and even the city itself. The nightclubs in the city of Liverpool have been one of the lynchpins for the economic regeneration of the city. Similarly, this happens in Eastern Europe when people want to invest in the infrastructure but are then scared away by organised crime. This happens on a smaller scale in other cities in England and Wales, yet it results in job losses that have a negative effect on the local economy
On a very basic level there are two types of drugs market. One would be habitual and the other recreational. Within the habitual market are the stereotyped chaotic addicts, people who commit acquisitive crime and tend to have broken relationships, poor health and be unemployed. The recreational market is stereotyped by the jet set, football stars, pop stars, the club scene, highbrow lifestyle and people in lucrative employment. There is a mix between the markets but strategies to deal with them have to be different.
Nightclubs are a part of the recreational market and a manager of a club must identify associated problems and how to deal with them. The scene in Liverpool is problematic because of the organised criminality and the flow of drugs in clubs. ‘Opportunist irregulars’ have no history of criminality. They may well be in a reasonably well paid job but see a niche in the market to indulge in activities which could be quite lucrative. This could then bring them into conflict with the law. ‘Criminal diversifiers’ are people who have a history of acquisitive crime and see dealing in drugs as more profitable and preferable than having to commit robberies and handbag snatches. ‘Illegitimate sideliners’ are nightclub workers who use their employment as a cover for dealing drugs to the clientele.
Nightclubs are a part of the recreational market and a manager of a club must identify associated problems and how to deal with them. The scene in Liverpool is problematic because of the organised criminality and the flow of drugs in clubs. ‘Opportunist irregulars’ have no history of criminality. They may well be in a reasonably well paid job but see a niche in the market to indulge in activities which could be quite lucrative. This could then bring them into conflict with the law. ‘Criminal diversifiers’ are people who have a history of acquisitive crime and see dealing in drugs as more profitable and preferable than having to commit robberies and handbag snatches. ‘Illegitimate sideliners’ are nightclub workers who use their employment as a cover for dealing drugs to the clientele.
Yeah it is bad! I would keep away from it if I were you! I was addicted to it once and its terrible for your health cause you smoke it for much longer than cigs! A shisha session can last up to hour and a half! Thats a lot of smoking and god knows what kinda crap were breathing in!Shisha's becoming really popular all over the world now and scientist don;t really know the full affects of shisha yet because it aint been studied but some scientist say its worse than cigs and I might agree on that!
Advantages: Tasty fruit flavours, fashionable
Disadvantages: If the smoke is inhaled then ill health effects associated with smoke inhalation apply
The sudden popularity of the shisha has been brought to my attention recently with the number of café?s offering shisha in around London. Edgeware Road in London is undoubtedly the shisha capital of London the way Amsterdam is the capital city of Cannabis.
I guess most of you would like to know what exactly shisha is... so here goes...
Shisha in simple terms is tobacco that is mixed with various fruit flavours. Shisha tobacco is not the normal tobacco found in cigarettes and cigars. It is completely different. Shisha tobacco is thought to be better than that found in cigarettes and cigars- the tobacco in cigarettes and cigars are not pure and contain large amounts of nicotine and other additives making them harmful. Shisha is most commonly smoked for flavour and not for the same reasons that people smoke cigarettes. Shisha smoking is very light and flavourful with a sweet, smooth aromatic taste (well that?s my experience anyway!)
Shisha is smoked in an instrument called a ?Hookah? which has been around for over 500 years and originally came from the Middle East. This piece of equipment is sometimes also called a shisha, hookah, nargile, narghile, nargila, hubble-bubble or a waterpipe. The basic elements of a hookah consists of a hollow glass base which is filled with water and often beatifically decorated, a vertical pipe topped with a clay bowl for the shisha tobacco and coals, and a hose to smoke through. Charcoal is used to gently heat the flavoured tobacco so that when you suck on the hose, the smoke is drawn down the pipe and through the water causing the water to bubble.
Smoking shisha has become something of a social activity with people visiting shisha cafés whatever the time, occasion or mood. Most shisha cafes in London are open until the early hours of the morning. One shisha café that I go to in London?s Edgeware Road is open 24 hours!
There are many different flavours of shisha that you can choose from, and i
n different parts of the world they have exclusive localised flavours. In the UK, the flavours that I have come across are double apple, mixed fruit, cherry, strawberry, grape, orange, and mint. Whilst on holiday in Dubai I noticed that they had flavours like cappuccino, lemon and bubble gum! I really wanted to try bubble gum flavour but unfortunately they were out of it on the day that I went, so I settled for my favourite flavour which is double apple. Smoking shisha doesn?t get you high but if smoked and inhaled continuously between 45 minutes to an hour, you may start to feel light headed (I?m just speaking from my own experience!)
Is Shisha smoking dangerous for you?
I decided to research this and found out that shisha could be bad for you but supposedly only negligibly:
?The water in the hookah is thought to take away around 90% of the harmful chemicals (excluding THC) and so the pipe contains merely 0.5% nicotine and 0% tar. Also, if it?s not inhaled, there is apparently practically no danger of lung cancer.? (http://www.shishapipe.net/)
However, if the smoke is inhaled then naturally all the ill health effects that are associated with smoke inhalation apply. If pregnant or suffering from any health conditions it would probably best to consult your doctor first.
Disadvantages: If the smoke is inhaled then ill health effects associated with smoke inhalation apply
The sudden popularity of the shisha has been brought to my attention recently with the number of café?s offering shisha in around London. Edgeware Road in London is undoubtedly the shisha capital of London the way Amsterdam is the capital city of Cannabis.
I guess most of you would like to know what exactly shisha is... so here goes...
Shisha in simple terms is tobacco that is mixed with various fruit flavours. Shisha tobacco is not the normal tobacco found in cigarettes and cigars. It is completely different. Shisha tobacco is thought to be better than that found in cigarettes and cigars- the tobacco in cigarettes and cigars are not pure and contain large amounts of nicotine and other additives making them harmful. Shisha is most commonly smoked for flavour and not for the same reasons that people smoke cigarettes. Shisha smoking is very light and flavourful with a sweet, smooth aromatic taste (well that?s my experience anyway!)
Shisha is smoked in an instrument called a ?Hookah? which has been around for over 500 years and originally came from the Middle East. This piece of equipment is sometimes also called a shisha, hookah, nargile, narghile, nargila, hubble-bubble or a waterpipe. The basic elements of a hookah consists of a hollow glass base which is filled with water and often beatifically decorated, a vertical pipe topped with a clay bowl for the shisha tobacco and coals, and a hose to smoke through. Charcoal is used to gently heat the flavoured tobacco so that when you suck on the hose, the smoke is drawn down the pipe and through the water causing the water to bubble.
Smoking shisha has become something of a social activity with people visiting shisha cafés whatever the time, occasion or mood. Most shisha cafes in London are open until the early hours of the morning. One shisha café that I go to in London?s Edgeware Road is open 24 hours!
There are many different flavours of shisha that you can choose from, and i
n different parts of the world they have exclusive localised flavours. In the UK, the flavours that I have come across are double apple, mixed fruit, cherry, strawberry, grape, orange, and mint. Whilst on holiday in Dubai I noticed that they had flavours like cappuccino, lemon and bubble gum! I really wanted to try bubble gum flavour but unfortunately they were out of it on the day that I went, so I settled for my favourite flavour which is double apple. Smoking shisha doesn?t get you high but if smoked and inhaled continuously between 45 minutes to an hour, you may start to feel light headed (I?m just speaking from my own experience!)
Is Shisha smoking dangerous for you?
I decided to research this and found out that shisha could be bad for you but supposedly only negligibly:
?The water in the hookah is thought to take away around 90% of the harmful chemicals (excluding THC) and so the pipe contains merely 0.5% nicotine and 0% tar. Also, if it?s not inhaled, there is apparently practically no danger of lung cancer.? (http://www.shishapipe.net/)
However, if the smoke is inhaled then naturally all the ill health effects that are associated with smoke inhalation apply. If pregnant or suffering from any health conditions it would probably best to consult your doctor first.
Advantages
- Convenient and easy to light up
- They are all the same size, so heat variations are not a problem.
- Easy to use indoors
Disadvantages
- Some no-name brand of Quick Lights contain excess amounts of lighter fluid and the fumes alter the taste of the molasses.
- More expensive then Natural Coals
- Die out quicker then Natural Coals
Recommended Use
The best time to use Quick Lights is when you plan on relaxing and smoking a bowl or two....or three......When you are too lazy, or not motivated enough to go through the effort of lighting up Natural Coals.
If you are going to use the quick lights, place a lit coal on the outside of the bowl first. Wait 2 minutes and then add another coal on another outer area of the bowl. Usually two charcoals will do the job, but some people like going overboard with the smoke and add a third charcoal 25 minutes into the smoking session when the first two begin to die down. It is not recommended to put a third charcoal on that soon, but if you are an experienced hookah smoker, and you know how to manage your charcoals, then you could pull it off and get quite a nice smoke from it. The other thing you need to worry about is heat management. About every five minutes, you should move the charcoal to a new place on the bowl on the outsides, and eventually moving them closer and closer to the inside. If the charcoal is placed on the same region of the bowl for too long, it will just burn the tobacco to the point it turns crispy and hard; ruining the flavor of the whole bowl. What we want to do is savor and use our molasses to it's fullest potential, and waste as little of it as possible. Heat management, and moving the coals every 5-10 minutes is a crucial technique that most people neglect when smoking hookah.
- Convenient and easy to light up
- They are all the same size, so heat variations are not a problem.
- Easy to use indoors
Disadvantages
- Some no-name brand of Quick Lights contain excess amounts of lighter fluid and the fumes alter the taste of the molasses.
- More expensive then Natural Coals
- Die out quicker then Natural Coals
Recommended Use
The best time to use Quick Lights is when you plan on relaxing and smoking a bowl or two....or three......When you are too lazy, or not motivated enough to go through the effort of lighting up Natural Coals.
If you are going to use the quick lights, place a lit coal on the outside of the bowl first. Wait 2 minutes and then add another coal on another outer area of the bowl. Usually two charcoals will do the job, but some people like going overboard with the smoke and add a third charcoal 25 minutes into the smoking session when the first two begin to die down. It is not recommended to put a third charcoal on that soon, but if you are an experienced hookah smoker, and you know how to manage your charcoals, then you could pull it off and get quite a nice smoke from it. The other thing you need to worry about is heat management. About every five minutes, you should move the charcoal to a new place on the bowl on the outsides, and eventually moving them closer and closer to the inside. If the charcoal is placed on the same region of the bowl for too long, it will just burn the tobacco to the point it turns crispy and hard; ruining the flavor of the whole bowl. What we want to do is savor and use our molasses to it's fullest potential, and waste as little of it as possible. Heat management, and moving the coals every 5-10 minutes is a crucial technique that most people neglect when smoking hookah.
Advantages
- Cleaner, you get a more natural taste from the bowl
- Cheaper
- Lasts longer then Quick Lights
- Get hotter then Quick Lights (Heat management is a MUST with natural coals, unless you enjoy
changing bowls every 20 minutes)
Disadvantages
- Harder to get lit then Quick Lights
- Carry a black dust which makes natural coals messier then Quick Lights
- Not recommended for indoors
Recommended Use
The best time to use Natural Coals is when you are outdoors and plan on smoking a bunch of bowls. Or if you are having a hookah party with many hookahs, then Natural Coals would be extremely convenient to have.
- Cleaner, you get a more natural taste from the bowl
- Cheaper
- Lasts longer then Quick Lights
- Get hotter then Quick Lights (Heat management is a MUST with natural coals, unless you enjoy
changing bowls every 20 minutes)
Disadvantages
- Harder to get lit then Quick Lights
- Carry a black dust which makes natural coals messier then Quick Lights
- Not recommended for indoors
Recommended Use
The best time to use Natural Coals is when you are outdoors and plan on smoking a bunch of bowls. Or if you are having a hookah party with many hookahs, then Natural Coals would be extremely convenient to have.
When the tablet has been lit, do not handle it, as it will cause a burn. Do not dispose of the ash remains in a waste paper bin, as this may cause a fire. Do not hold the tablet in your hand when lighting or when burning.
Lack of proper charcoal management is the main reason why a hookah will not taste right. What we want to do is get enough heat to "toast" the molasses but not go overboard with it so that it burns the molasses too quick without getting any flavor out of it.
There are two different kinds of charcoal that people use. One kind of charcoal that people use are "quick lights" (Swift Lite, starlight, three kings, three queens). Quick lights are simply; easy lighting charcoal. Most of them start right up within seconds of being in contact with a flame.
The other kind of charcoal that people use are "natural wood coals" (el-wady, baroody).
Natural coals are different then quick lights in that you have to place them in a pre-existing fire to get them to start up. For example, I get my natural coals lit by making a mini camp fire outside with sticks and some lighter fluid. Then putting the natural coals in the fire for a few minutes until they get lit. It isn't recommended to use natural coals indoors for obvious reasons. Below is a comparison between natural coals and quick lights.
Lack of proper charcoal management is the main reason why a hookah will not taste right. What we want to do is get enough heat to "toast" the molasses but not go overboard with it so that it burns the molasses too quick without getting any flavor out of it.
There are two different kinds of charcoal that people use. One kind of charcoal that people use are "quick lights" (Swift Lite, starlight, three kings, three queens). Quick lights are simply; easy lighting charcoal. Most of them start right up within seconds of being in contact with a flame.
The other kind of charcoal that people use are "natural wood coals" (el-wady, baroody).
Natural coals are different then quick lights in that you have to place them in a pre-existing fire to get them to start up. For example, I get my natural coals lit by making a mini camp fire outside with sticks and some lighter fluid. Then putting the natural coals in the fire for a few minutes until they get lit. It isn't recommended to use natural coals indoors for obvious reasons. Below is a comparison between natural coals and quick lights.
