Bong

A bong, also usually known as a water pipe, is a smoking machine, normally used to smoke cannabis, tobacco, or other substances The building of a bong and its principle of deed is similar to that of the hookah. A bong may be constructed from any air- and water-tight vessel by adding a screened bowl and stem apparatus . The word bong is an version of the Thai word baung  a cylindrical stilted tube, pipe, or pot cut from bamboo, and which also refers to the bong used for smoking. Bongs have been in use, primarily by the Hmong, in Laos and Thailand, for centuries. One of the earliest recorded uses of the word in the West is the McFarland Thai-English Dictionary, published in 1944, which describes one of the meanings of bong in the Thai language as, "a bamboo waterpipe for smoking kancha, tree, hashish, or the hemp-plant." A January 1971 issue of the Marijuana Review also used the word.