Two people smoke hookah on the terrace of Fog Factory, a hookah establishment on Bohdana Khmelnytskoho Street on Sept. 3, 2020.
Aleksandra Jankauskas, a 19-year-old Kyiv native, is an avid hookah smoker like many Ukrainians of her age. However, she is worried that this social component of her Friday evenings may not be possible in the post-pandemic era.
Smoking hookah, or kalyan as it’s often called in Ukraine, is usually a group activity that involves inhaling flavored tobacco smoke via a waterpipe and then sharing it with others, a risky lifestyle as the world tries to curb the spread of COVID-19, an airborne disease.
