“There are hundreds of hookah lounges in the U-S, mostly in college towns and urban areas. The lounges have enjoyed an exemption to clean indoor air laws because they have defined themselves as ‘tobacco shops.’ No more. The front line is here in Boston. After allowing a few lounges to open, the city has clamped down and passed a law that forces all of the city’s hookah lounges to shut down by 2019. ‘There’s a risk that people who are non-smokers will [..] find themselves addicted to nicotine and needing to buy packs of Marlboros,’ says Mark Gottlieb, executive director at the Public Health Advocacy Institute.”
http://blogs.lawyers.com/2013/08/the-hookah-lounge-war/
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