One-hitter (smoking)

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Midwakh (U.A.E.), shown with and without a stem-mounted filter. Traditionally used with dokha, an Iranian sifted tobacco product with admixtures of other herbs.

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Kiseru, with handcrafted metal head and mouthpiece; traditionally used with kizami, a finely shredded Japanese tobacco product. Flexible extension tube of matching diameter can substitute for the stiff bamboo stem.

A one-hitter (also oney, bat, tay or oney bat) is typically a straight slender smoking pipe with a small bowl designed for a single inhalation, or "hit," of smoke from burning cannabis, tobacco or another herbal preparation. Traditionally, they have been made from clay or wood and, more recently, from glass. They have a miniature smoking pipe with a screened, narrow reception crater, or "bowl", designed for a low-temperature single inhalation, or "hit" of cannabis, tobacco or other sifted herbal product. It is distinguished from western-style large-bowl pipes designed for strong tobaccos that are burned hot and tasted but not inhaled. By properly distancing a lighter flame, users operate at vaporization temperatures and minimize combustion waste and toxicity.

Traditional national varieties of one hitter pipes include kiseru (Japan), midwakh (Middle East), sebsi (Morocco) and some narrow chillums (Nepal, India, Jamaica).

A one-hitter can be considered drug paraphernalia in certain regions.

Dugout

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Wooden dugout box with cigarette-styled one-hitter, technically a small chillum (with end-to-end channel); in the illustration, the sucking end is upright.

Sebsi (Morocco) with clay craterhead and long wooden tube for which flexible plastic hose might be substituted, as with certain vaporizers or hookahs.

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A modern cylindrical aluminum dugout with multiple special features

Brands of cigarette-sized one hitters for inconspicuous public use are marketed with a rectangular (or sometimes cylindrical) wooden case with two compartments, the larger to store a stash of herb and a narrower, cylindrical hole to store the "bat" or pipe.

Modern adaptations from craft-centric companies use fine and rare woods, bone, acrylic, aluminum, steel, titanium, other metals or plastics, adding features such as grinders, poker storage or lighter chambers. Carried in a shirt pocket, they are a tangible "replacement" for the pack of cigarettes when one is eliminating a smoking habit.

See also

• Cannabis smoking
• Chillum (pipe)
• Hashish
• Kiseru
• Midwakh
• Sebsi
• Smoking cessation
• Vaporizer (inhalation device)