Editing Hookah (section)

====Bangladesh====
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| image1 = I'tisam-ud-Din.png|caption1=[[I'tisam-ud-Din]], a [[Bengali Muslim]] from the 18th century, smoking hukka.
| image2 = Bamboo Hookah at khagrachori 03.jpg|caption2=[[Garo people|Garo]] woman smoking a traditional bamboo hookah.
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The hookah ({{langx|bn|হুক্কা|hukka}}) has been a traditional smoking instrument in [[Bangladesh]], particularly among the old [[Bengali Muslim]] [[zamindar]] gentry.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Kaneta Choudhury|last2=S.M.A. Hanifi|last3=Abbas Bhuiya|last4=Shehrin Shaila Mahmood|title=Sociodemographic Characteristics of Tobacco Consumers in a Rural Area of Bangladesh|journal=Journal of Health, Population, and Nutrition|date=December 2007|volume=25|issue=4|pages=456–464|pmc=2754020|pmid=18402189}}</ref> However, flavoured shisha was introduced in the early 2000s. Hookah lounges spread quite quickly between 2008 and 2011 in urban areas and became popular among young people as well as middle-aged people as a relaxation method. There have been allegations of a government crack-down on hookah bars to prevent illicit drug usage.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Ahmed Shatil Alam|title=Killer in disguise|url=http://newagebd.net/84643/killer-in-disguise/#sthash.LnBdhDzn.dpbs|access-date=7 March 2015|work=[[The New Age]]|archive-date=2 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402104114/http://newagebd.net/84643/killer-in-disguise/#sthash.LnBdhDzn.dpbs|url-status=live}}</ref> The hookah is also an [[electoral symbol]] for a candidate used first in the [[1973 Bangladeshi general election]].<ref>{{cite book|publisher=Embassy of Bangladesh|date=26 January 1973|volume=3|issue=2|title=Bangladesh: a fortnightly news bulletin|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TWEwAQAAIAAJ&q=hookah&pg=PA8-IA134|page=4|chapter=Elections symbols prescribed}}</ref> In the biography of [[Mountstuart Elphinstone]], it is mentioned that [[James Achilles Kirkpatrick]] had a ''hookah-bardar'' (hookah servant/preparer) during his time in the [[Indian subcontinent]]. Kirkpatrick's hookah servant is said to have robbed and cheated Kirkpatrick, making his way to England and stylising himself as the ''Prince of Sylhet''. The man was waited upon by the [[Prime Minister of Great Britain]] [[William Pitt the Younger]], and then dined with the [[Duke of York]] before presenting himself in front of [[George III]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Life of the Honourable Mountstuart Elphinstone|first=Thomas Edward|last=Colebrooke|pages=34–35|year=1884|author-link=Sir Edward Colebrooke, 4th Baronet|chapter=First Start in Diplomacy|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9781108097222|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tSoMEJ-_Nx0C&q=hookah&pg=PA34|access-date=26 October 2020|archive-date=1 June 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240601132443/https://books.google.com/books?id=tSoMEJ-_Nx0C&q=hookah&pg=PA34#v=snippet&q=hookah&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref>