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1. Few unknown facts about Bong! The bong is probably the most popular and beloved smoking device in the history of humancannabisuse.

2. The bong is descendent of the hookah. The word “bong” is derived from the Thai word ‘baung,’ which means ‘cut from bamboo’ a cylindrical wooden tube, pipe or container.

3. Since cannabis is native to Central Asia, and has been used throughout history in China, it has always been assumed that the bong was invented in Asia. As the hookah uses water filtration like the modern bong, it was always assumed that the bong was developed from the hookah

4. Eleven pipes were located in two caves and dated to between 1100 and 1400 CE. When researchers tested the pipes, they found ample cannabis residue. This implies that Bong was also invented in Africa. In 1924 Alfred Dunhill published a survey of the smoking pipes of the world. The book included a chapter on the widespread use of a Bong in eastern and southern Africa that was a distinct design that he believed was the invention of the San people.

5. In 1945, archaeologist Mary Leakey found water pipe/ bong in Tanzania. The theory ignores the fact that cannabis in Asian Islamic societies was eaten, rather than smoked, before the introduction of the Bong/water pipe in the early years of the seventeenth century.

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