TALL HOOKAHS DON'T SMOKE BETTER THAN SHORT ONES

The things that make one hookah better than another are the width of your downstem/hose adapter/hose, a lack of air-leaks, and a base that holds enough water to cool your smoke properly. 

A HOOKAH IS ONLY AS GOOD AS IT'S SMALLEST CHOKE POINT

It all boils down to physics. As smoke passes through your hookah, it will go through a series of passageways of various sizes. The wider the openings are, the easier the pull, and the more smoke you will get.

PLASTIC WASHABLE HOSES ARE AWESOME

They are cheap, they smoke great, especially when you are smoking in a small group or by yourself, and if a flavor ghosts really bad you can just throw it away and get another one.

WOMEN PLAYED A VITAL ROLE IN THE SPREAD OF HOOKAH CULTURE

The hookah pipe, in some form, has been around for hundreds and hundreds of years but it did not spread beyond the middle east until the late 1800s and early 1900s when it became very fashionable for women to be seen, and photographed, smoking hookahs.