The answer to this question is quite simple. Hookah bars are 18 and over. The legal age to drink in most states is 21, however, the legal age to smoke tobacco is 18. The atmosphere to a hookah bar is that of a regular bar that serves alcohol with a middle eastern atmosphere. Most student between the ages of 18-20 cannot enter drinking bars unless they have an illegal ID that displays a false age. So the alternative are hookah bars.

The remarkable aspect about smoking tobacco is that doctors and the government condemn it more than drinking alcohol. We rarely here that drinking alcohol is harmful. Smoking in our society is become a taboo, but yet, the legal age to smoke is 18 and the nicotine in tobacco is far more addicting than any of the substances contained in a bottle of alcohol. So, more students smoke hookah, but without knowing they are becoming addicted to the harmful substances, and without their control they go from smoking hookah to cigarettes. On the contrary, students who attend drinking bars that are over the age of 21, rarely become addicted to alcohol. A small number of them become dependent on alcohol but its rare to hear that one of your friends walks around with a bottle of gin to class. But, you almost see a third of students smoking a cigarette to class or smoke hookah regularly.

This is something unique to think about and we are not here to change the law of the country, but to open up your eyes to what is currently occurring in our country. If you go on Facebook.com, you rarely see a group dedicated to alcoholics, but its a norm to see groups made for hookaholics. The average number of tobacco smokers is increasing significantly without increasing the legal age.

If the government decides to ban hookah at cafes, students can easily access their own supply at home. Furthermore, there are new alternatives that are produced from other substances which contains no tobacco that easily can bypass any laws set forward.

So, the answer to the question to why hookah bars drive so many students to them is because the laws of the country has introduced new alternatives that preoccupy the time of students. A thing or two to think about is why the legal age to drink is 21 and the legal age to smoke is 18, while we hear more negatives news from the current media and deaths about smoking?