Shisha is designed to be smoked out of a type of water pipe called a hookah or narguile. Shisha flavor is packed into a hookah bowl or �head� that typically sits at the very top of the pipe. The flavored tobacco is then heated using pieces of hookah charcoal that burn at low enough temperatures to vaporize the molasses, glycerin, and flavoring without combusting the tobacco (or other plant material). Then by inhaling through a hookah hose, the smoke is pulled through the hookah shaft, gets filtered and cooled by the water in the base, and results in thick clouds of smooth, flavorful shisha smoke.