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smoke like an Egyptian (Hookah bars struggle in Texas)
The Economist ^
| 25-sept-05
| The Economist
Posted on 09/25/2005 8:13:41 AM PDT by voletti
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Dunno about the rest of you, but as an ex-smoker myself, I can testify to the kind of appeal this might have...
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posted on
09/25/2005 8:13:42 AM PDT
by
voletti
To: voletti
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posted on
09/25/2005 8:18:01 AM PDT
by
billybudd
To: voletti
I drove down to my post office yesterday at 8am ... my local hookah bar was already jamming!
To: voletti
We had something like that in college.
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posted on
09/25/2005 8:22:15 AM PDT
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: voletti
Are you sure that's tobacco he's smoking?
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posted on
09/25/2005 8:24:08 AM PDT
by
Paleo Conservative
(France is an example of retrograde chordate evolution.)
To: billorites
yea but we never smoked tobacco with it
To: billybudd
Actually it isn't terribly cumbersome at all. The hookah bars are filled with big overstuffed plush chairs with the hookah on a table. The only thing you have to deal with is a tube.
To: voletti
If this is your idea of a recreational activity, you've got issues
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posted on
09/25/2005 8:27:16 AM PDT
by
Vision
(When Hillary Says She's Going To Put The Military On Our Borders...She Becomes Our Next President)
To: Vision
At the risk of defending smoking...
Hookahs are shared between fiends. Its a communal activity, not unlike eating from the same plate/table in a middle eastern resturant. Provides a bit of bonding.
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posted on
09/25/2005 9:31:09 AM PDT
by
Starwolf
To: voletti
The only part of the article I found really interesting was at the end, where it talks about how clever people are evading Big Stupid Government (in both cases under Republican governors):
In Manhattan, plenty of places get classified as tobacco bars and so avoid New York's 2003 ban. Joseph Melamed of the Gypsy Café in Westwood, California, has another strategy. He says that California's smoking ban was enacted to protect employees, not patrons (who can choose to boycott the bar). So he has taken advantage of an exemption for owner-operated bars with no employees, and made his employees part-owners.
American ingenuity isn't dead just yet.
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posted on
09/25/2005 9:37:20 AM PDT
by
Hank Rearden
(Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
To: SheLion
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posted on
09/25/2005 9:44:24 AM PDT
by
freepatriot32
(Deep within every dilemma is a solution that involves explosives)
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posted on
09/25/2005 9:45:50 AM PDT
by
freepatriot32
(Deep within every dilemma is a solution that involves explosives)
To: BunnySlippers
I am a non smoker- I hate the smell of cigarette smoke. While on vacation my husband and I had lunch at a combination cafe' hookah bar. The odors did not bother me at all and there sure was no smoke haze. But the stuff is expensive.
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posted on
09/25/2005 9:47:23 AM PDT
by
lastchance
(Hug your babies.)
To: lastchance
Well, I only drive by my hookah bar. I quit smoking more than 15 years ago and don't miss it. And I don't like cigarette smoke.
To: Starwolf
Hookahs are shared between fiends.
So it's a very fiendish activity.
To: voletti
these fellas sure like to puff:
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posted on
09/25/2005 10:00:49 AM PDT
by
varyouga
(Reformed Kerry voter (I know, I'm a frickin' idiot))
To: Starwolf
Hookahs are shared between fiends. Its a communal activity, not unlike eating from the same plate/table in a middle eastern restaurant. Provides a bit of bonding.
Eating is a necessity of life. Getting high on drugs is not
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posted on
09/25/2005 10:20:47 AM PDT
by
Vision
(When Hillary Says She's Going To Put The Military On Our Borders...She Becomes Our Next President)
To: Vision
Getting high on drugs is not Not your concern. Let Darwin worry about them.
To: Vision
Eating is a necessity of life. Getting high on drugs is notWhile tobacco is a drug, I'm not sure that the buzz you get smoking it, even through tubes and water, could reasonably be called a "high." Out of curiosity, do you eat with another person, or always alone? Eating is a necessity, but for most of us, it is also a social activity. Hence taking someone out to dinner, which I can assure you isn't just about injesting the requisite calories, minerals and vitamins to sustsain life.
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posted on
09/25/2005 11:19:38 AM PDT
by
Alter Kaker
(Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one’s nose.-Heine)
To: Alter Kaker
While tobacco is a drug, I'm not sure that the buzz you get smoking it, even through tubes and water, could reasonably be called a "high." Out of curiosity, do you eat with another person, or always alone? Eating is a necessity, but for most of us, it is also a social activity. Hence taking someone out to dinner, which I can assure you isn't just about injesting the requisite calories, minerals and vitamins to sustsain life.
You druggies are all the same, always trying to intellectualize your beliefs. The hookah was not designed and is not primarily used to smoke tobacco. And try spell checking your posts if you can get your mouth off the bong for a few seconds- it's only a few clicks
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posted on
09/25/2005 12:30:13 PM PDT
by
Vision
(When Hillary Says She's Going To Put The Military On Our Borders...She Becomes Our Next President)
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