The students extol the virtues of hookah smoking, saying the tobacco is organic and they donТt believe it contains chemicals or nicotine. They praise it as a needed, and safer, alternative to drinking, and reject the suspicions of some in the law enforcement community that the hookahs might be packed with drugs.

Most of the students interviewed do not smoke marlboro online, but have smoked hookahs at parties and elsewhere before.

УItТs definitely a dry option, and they needed it,Ф says Meagan Gabriel, a first-year URI student who celebrated her motherТs birthday with her family at Sedra. Her mother, Susan, is native to Jordan but now lives in South Kingstown.

УItТs not like everybodyТs trashed, so you actually remember,Ф said John Majeika, a CCRI freshman from South Kingstown.

On this reporterТs first trip to Sedra, my companion and I chose watermelon tobacco. The smoke was so light it scarcely felt as though we were inhaling, but we grew lightheaded as the session progressed. Both non-smokers, we felt woozy and out-of-sorts the following day.