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So Long, Hookahs
Michigan smoking ban
Thanks to lobbying by the affected industries, Michigan’s new smoking ban includes exemptions for cigar bars and casinos. The hookah cafés that dot the Detroit area were not so lucky. Without an exemption, the cafés will have to either stop serving food or stop offering the flavored tobacco in towering water pipes favored by the area’s large Arab-American population.
Either way, they’ll lose their role as places people gather to eat, drink, smoke, and talk. “It’s a double standard,” Akram Allos, owner of Sinbad Café in Dearborn, complained to the Detroit Free Press. “Just because we didn’t have a lobbyist, why should we have to suffer?”
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JdL|8.11.10 @ 3:59PM|#
What is it going to take for government thugs to realize they need to stop trying to run our lives??
ScP|8.19.10 @ 6:47PM|#
Just because the government is placing a smoking ban does not mean they are thugs. Sometimes it takes laws and rules in order to help people help themselves. In this case, not only does it help smokers to limit their smoking, but also ensures that non-smokers do not have to breathe in second hand smoke.
Patrick|8.20.10 @ 12:56PM|#
If you don't want to breathe second hand smoke don't go to a goddamn hookah bar.
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