Sophisticated smoking

Looking out over the skyline of my city from an Egyptian's balcony, I smoked a waterpipe for the first time in my life this weekend. You put a sweetened tobacco in the top, cover it with tin foil, and put glowing embers on top. Then, you suck on the metal end of a tube, pulling smoke to the bottom of the apparatus and through cold water.
The result is that you hardly realize you're smoking until the smoke comes out of your mouth. The sweetness and softness make it very different from smoking a cigarette (which I never do anyway).