If you're over a certain age (say 30), you probably remember the days when saying the word "bong" would get you kicked out of a head shop. The preferred nomenclature, we olds remember, despite everyone in the room obviously knowing we were talking about bongs, was "water pipe." Water pipes are so much more than just bongs, though. They can include bubblers, percolator bowls, and any number of implements for consuming your desired dry plants in new ways including using concentrates and vaporizers. The one constant: there's going to be some water involved. Water pipes are glass attachments for your vaporizers that look and act like a bong. They attach to the end of your vaporizer and the vapor fills up in the pipe so that you can take it directly into your lungs in one gulp. For longtime users of a bong, this makes a familiar way to intake your herb and a lot of users claim that it increases the potency of your intake. In this article, we’ll look at the advantages and disadvantages to using a water pipe. If you’re just getting into vaporizing your dry leaf, this is a pretty sweet contraption to have laying around.