It burns pieces of super hot charcoal at the top along with some moistish tobacco, then smoke is trapped inside of some thing and it has a tube you suck the smoke out of. Not illegal, its basically a more disgusting way of smoking a cigarette.
Alright, new pic w/o hookah, bottles, etc. : There. Thread back on topic. If you want to talk hookah or other stuff save it for my wall or pm. Don't use this thread.