A chibouk (; french: chibouque; from the tr, çıbık, çubuk (English: "stick" from the Persian word choobak "چوبک" meaning small wooden stick) (Serbian: "Čibuk"); also romanized ''čopoq'', ''ciunoux'' or ''tchibouque'') is a very long-stemmed Turkish

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, often featuring a

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bowl ornamented with precious stones. The stem of the chibouk generally ranges between 4 and 5 ft. (1.2 and 1.5 m), much longer than even Western

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s. While primarily known as a Turkish pipe, the chibouk was once popular in Iran, as well. Like Chinese

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s, chibouk are antiquated smoking devices, and are rarely, if at all produced in modern times. Their use in Turkey and the Middle East may have died out with the growing popularity of the hookah and

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. Old chibouk and chibouk bowls can still be purchased as antiques. Similar pipes were once used in

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to smoke

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. Some specialized chibouk were produced to act as long, cigarette-holding pipes. Some had detachable mouthpieces. Enver Pasha was known to have smoked chibouk,Detail of 1910 CORBIS photo of Enver Pasha smoking a chibouk
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, ''Turc Au Chibouk'' by James Lewis Caw, ''Interieur d'un café Turc'' by Chevalier Auguste de Henikstein, and ''Guerrier fumant le Chibouk'' by Johann Hermann are examples of chibouk featured in art and illustration. File:A Turkish coffee house on the Bosphorus. Edmund Spencer (capt.). Travels in the western Causasus.1838. cover.jpg, An 1838 illustration of a Turkish coffee house with patrons smoking from long-stemmed chibouk pipes, as featured in ''Travels in the western Caucasus'' by Edmund Spencer. File:Ernst - Le fumeur de chibouk.jpg, Rudolf Ernst, ''Chibouk smoker''

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