The most widespread in our days, flavored tobacco appeared not so long ago. At the end of the 20th century, the Egyptian company Nakhla for the first time offered the consumer tobacco with various fruit flavors. And what did they smoke before? From this article you will learn about the main types of tobacco and about the geographical preferences in its choice.

Mu’assel
Remember this beautiful name, because, most likely, what you put in the bowl for the hookah is a mu’assel. The name has Arabic roots and in translation means “honey”. This is due to the fact that earlier in the production of tobacco mixtures for hookah used honey. At the present time, honey is replaced with molasses (sugar syrup), and the traditional name remains.
Ingredients for any flavored tobacco are:
– Tobacco leaf
– Syrup
– Glycerol
– Aroma
– Preservative

Exists a non-flavored mu’assel. Its taste depends on the type of tobacco leaf or on their mixture.

Tombak
Tombak – a few large soaked in water tobacco leaves. This hookah smokes without using a bowl. Leaves of tobacco are wound on the top part of a hookah (outwardly resembling a cigar). Coals are placed directly on the leaves. Tombak has a strong and saturated tobacco flavor, which makes it quite popular among the more adult population of India, Iran and Saudi Arabia.

Jurak
Jurak is finely ground tobacco leaves, with the addition of treacle and spices. When smoking the bowl is usually filled with a pile (or use a bowl of a larger volume), and the coals are put directly onto this mixture without foil. Jurak is popular among smokers of Syria, India and the UAE.

In the modern world, in Russia, in Europe and the United States, the vast majority of mixes for hookah is a flavored mu’assel. Non-flavored tobacco is seriously inferior in popularity. Tombak and Jurak are exotic for us, which is unlikely to become a common phenomenon in our realities.