Apparatus for securing to the top of a bottle or canister for providing a smoking assembly

A method for smoking leaves comprising:

• filling a vessel with an open top with a volume with water or other liquid so that there is a remaining air volume within the vessel;
• engaging a smoking apparatus comprising a straw element and a bowl with the open top of the vessel;
• inserting a flame-resistant straw into the straw element and into the interior of the vessel;
• positioning the straw relative to the straw element to ensure that the top end of the straw may be placed on the lips of a user without the face of the user coming into close contact with the bowl, such that any flame or heated material within the bowl is at a safe distance from the user's face;
• placing crushed plant leaves into the bowl for lighting with a fire instigating device;
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• smoking the crushed plant leaves by lighting the plant leaves with a fire instigation device, wherein the user places his or her lips on the top end of the straw, wherein the smoke from the burnt leaves travels down in to the open air chamber of the vessel and up through the straw while being cooled by the water or other liquid and the ambient temperature of the vessel, wherein excess debris from the burnt leaves is filtered down into the water portion of the vessel by falling directly through apertures located on the bottom of the smoking apparatus, and wherein cooled and filtered smoke from the burnt leaves is substantially contained within the air volume within the vessel.