Cafe aims to get guests into its hookahs
“My goal is to give people a place to relax and smoke shisha and enjoy good company.” Smoking the herbal shisha in the cafe is made possible by a special permit. The shisha itself comes in a variety of flavours like grape, mint, lemon, rose and apple …
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Province unveiling tobacco reduction strategy
The plan, released five months later than planned and a decade after the original anti-smoking strategy, may include a ban on shisha smoking in hookah lounges, restrictions on flavoured tobacco, greater enforcement around sales, and anti-tobacco …
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Brownie's Marine Group Reports Third Quarter and YTD Results
14, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Brownie's Marine Group, Inc. (OTCBB:BWMG), a leading developer, manufacturer and distributor of highly specialized dive and safety products, today announced its operating results for the third quarter and nine month …
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University alumna to open hookah lounge in Mid-City
The new lounge, called The Phoenix, will offer a variety of flavored tobacco products as well as teas and coffees to customers, Gheith said. However, this isn’t Gheith’s first business venture. In fact, it isn’t even her first hookah lounge. Her family …
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FBI agent: Calif. terror plot 'very serious case'
Federal investigators said Kabir met Deleon, 23, and Santana, 21, at a hookah bar and introduced them to the radical Islamist doctrine of the U.S.-born extremist cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who was killed last year in an American airstrike in Yemen. Kabir …
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Enforcement of tobacco ban based on intervention
The new policy prohibits on-campus use of all tobacco products and nicotine delivery methods not approved by the FDA, including traditional cigarettes, e-cigarettes, pipes, cigars, hookah/water pipes and all other forms of smoke-generating products …
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Computers Totally Get Abstract Art; Probing Einstein's Brain
Discovered: Computers predict the emotions abstract art will provoke; new photographs of Einstein's brain reveal a master mind; kids are smoking too much hookah; old spear found. Computers consider abstract art. Confused by Rothko? Perplexed by Pollock …
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Off the Hookah in Fort Lauderdale
Next stop: Off the Hookah, located at 111 SW 2nd Avenue, hosted Late Night Flavors. Recently opened at this location, the decor represents a mix of Middle East destinations, including Morocco, and offered a night of dancing (watching scantily-clad …
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Hookah parlors barred
An ordinance prohibiting hookah parlors in the city will be drafted, the El Centro City Council decided Tuesday. Hookah parlors aren't listed in the city's ordinance, said Community Development Director Norma Villicaña, and as a result they are prohibited.
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'Zoey 101' Star Matthew Underwood — ARRESTED at Hookah Lounge
Sources say … around 3AM, law enforcement in Port St. Lucie rolled up to the Cloud 9 hookah lounge, co-owned by Underwood, and arrested the actor on a probation violation … stemming from his drug possession conviction earlier this year. We broke …
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Robbers hit Rolando hookah bar
SAN DIEGO (CNS) – Two masked gunmen robbed a Rolando-area hookah bar Monday morning as its employees were preparing to open for the day, but no one was hurt, police said. The robbery at Prince Mediterranean Hooka Cafe at 4644 College Ave.
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Where smoke gets in your eyes, really
SCHENECTADY — The Capital Region is poised to get its first hookah lounge, a place where one can smoke flavored tobaccos out of a water pipe that's rooted in traditions of India and Persia. Wahiba Elassali, a city resident and Morocco native whose …
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Legislation Needed to Deter Young People From Using Hookah, Says CDC
A recent report in the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) journal Preventing Chronic Disease finds that almost one-fifth of the nation's 12th-graders report using hookahs – large water-pipes that are commonly found in bars and lounges – to smoke shisha, …
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Thane police chief asked to probe hookah parlour charge
The Bombay high court on Monday directed the Thane police chief to file a personal affidavit following an allegation that the local police were hand-in-glove with owners of a hotel where hookah was being served to minors in spite of a ban that was …
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Hookah lounge to open in Saratoga Spa
Badger's Hookah Bar at 42 Caroline St. will begin "offering the largest variety of shisha in the region," meaning flavored tobaccos that the bar says are concocted by their resident Samoan shisha chef, Nate Gillie. The hookah is a water pipe rooted in …
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Teenage hookah smoking rates must be reduced, experts say
While the lion's share of youth anti-smoking efforts has focused on cigarettes, a new report in the CDC journal Preventing Chronic Disease suggests more needs to be done to reduce the number of teens smoking flavored tobacco from hookahs. According to …
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HC gets tough on use of nicotine in hookah bars
CHANDIGARH: Acting tough against nicotine use through inhalation from hookahs/sheeshas in various restaurants, lounges and hookah bars in the region, the Punjab and Haryana high court, on Thursday, directed the states of Punjab, Haryana and the …
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