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Ladies and gentlemen of our pleasurable hobby, I have been smoking hookah for over three years now thanks to the seriousness and passion that the many members here have injected in this forum. I have become equally as serious and passionate about my hookah hobby. I am a history major at Auburn University (War Damn Eagle!) and as a part of my senior thesis I have begun the long, arduous and what has proved to be difficult endeavor to quite literally write the book on the history of Hookah emergence and use in the United States. I am quite familiar with the history of hookah itself but my quest to dig up sources on the emergence of hookah in the US has proved quite difficult. Basically what I am asking of you good folks is for any leads which may be: books, articles, interviews, speeches, anything really that relates to hookah or water pipe use in America preferably in the time period from 1880's-1980's. Fellow students at other universities you could help me immensely by simply typing into your library's catalog search "History of Hookah" or a keyword search like "America (and) Hookah" I see this as my chance to help give back to the hookah community in a little way that I can and any help, questions or advice you have about my project would be greatly appreciated. I might also be looking to do some interviews with business/ lounge owners about their experience about they got into the hookah industry, or where and how they learned about hookah. Thanks again guys and happy smoking!