the tobacco free shisha, or herbal shisha, tastes like ass. but shisha is not even that much tobacco. like 0.4% nic and tar. mostly the molasses and fruit flavorings or what have you. i hate when i pull out my hookah and people call it a bong. worse when they try to smoke weed out of my bong. i love smoking marijuana but not everything has to be used with weed. a hookah is a more social thing. you sit around and talk while hitting the hookah for ~1hour+. and its also two different ways of smoking shisha and smoking weed. shisha doesnt use a direct flame. if you try to light your shisha and smoke it the same way you smoke a bong, you'll see what i mean. might as well suck the gas out of a fat old man's ass.