Hookah Smoking Lounges Targeted More And More! When Will We Stand And Fight!
Good Morning Hookah Whisperers!
I had to show you all this article from the Starnews Online from a few days ago.
Read the article and tell me what you think. It just cracks me up how these smoking activists seem to think that smoking tea or raw sugar cane is any better than smoking tobacco! I’ll give you that tobacco smoking is not good for us. There have been hundreds of studies done to prove this, and I believe it! We know it and we take the risk because we enjoy it. Show me one study that addresses the long term effects of smoking tea or sugar cane! They don’t exist! Because they don’t exist, that makes the smoking activists feel better about it?! What a bunch of morons! Read on and enjoy!
Hookah bar resolves smoking ban dispute
By Vicky Eckenrode
Vicky.Eckenrode@StarNewsOnline.com
Published: Friday, April 16, 2010 at 5:03 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, April 16, 2010 at 5:03 p.m.
The Juggling Gypsy signed a consent agreement with the New Hanover County health department this week resolving the remaining smoking ban violations against the Castle Street hookah bar.
The agreement means the Juggling Gypsy will not have to pay two separate $200 fines that were pending against it.
The bar has paid one $200 administrative fine stemming from a Feb. 19 penalty. The owner paid after losing an appeal hearing over the fine earlier this month in front of New Hanover County’s health board.
At the hearing, the Juggling Gypsy’s owner and manager said the hookah bar has switched to allowing only hookah shisha made from tea leaves and herbal cigarettes to be smoked inside.
Those who want to use hookahs with tobacco products or regular cigarettes smoke outside, they said.
“Based on their representation to that effect and payment on that first citation, we agreed at this point we would not schedule hearings for the other two violations,” Kemp Burpeau, assistant county attorney, said Friday. “We did reserve the right to reinstate those violations if there was any further evidence of noncompliance.”
The law that went into effect Jan. 2 banned smoking tobacco products inside most bars and restaurants in the state.
Denny Best, the Juggling Gypsy’s manager, said he still planned to urge state legislators to revisit the ban and give hookah bars an exemption similar to the one that was granted to cigar bars that are allowed to smoke inside as long as they meet certain alcohol sales requirements.
“I’ve already talked to a lot of the local legislators, and they seem to be on our side,” Best said.
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Until next time, remember: Life is too short to smoke cheap shisha!
