Multi-Pipe Bongs: Art Forms with Hazards
Multi-pipe bongs are starting to gain popularity among fanatics of legal highs. Even though the authorities are continuously sending warnings to the public about the potential hazards of these substances, very few actually heed them. College students and teenagers in general have taken to smoking various tobacco-like products that include dried lettuce, herbs and many other substances that have the same texture and consistency as tobacco. This is where multi-pipe bongs become the smoker’s best friend.
A bong is an apparatus used for smoking. It consists of a long, upright, hollow cylinder that has one end sealed by a supported base, while the other end has an opening to allow a smoker to cover it with his or her mouth. Multi-pipe bongs have channels of pipes inside to help filter out more of the impurities from the smoke, as well as provide an artistic design to the simple bong architecture. The device has a combustion chamber, with an inlet where the substance is placed and an outlet that allows smoke to seep out.
Multi-pipe bongs are usually made out of plain glass, but other materials, including acrylic, metal, ceramics and even wood have also been used to enclose the multi-pipe designs.
Veteran smokers are aware that multi-pipe bongs are safer than using cigars or cigarettes. Indeed, the incidence of lung cancer in the users of such filters is lower than that of normal tobacco users. There are times when a person who uses multi-pipe bongs frequently develops cancer of the lips, which makes this method of filtering smoke undesirable.