Smoking ban - Sheesh!

[WillowTheWhisp]

As a non-smoker I'm all for banning smoking in restaurants so that it doesn't affect the food. I'm on the fence regarding pubs because I feel that if I choose to go somewhere smoky then it's my choice and nobody forced me to go there so I have no business moaning about it but it is nicer when the air isn't thick with fog.

However, what hadn't dawned on me until now is that the ban will also apply to shisha cafes where people actually go to actually smoke yer actual shisha pipes! Sheesh! I mean it's like banning alcohol from pubs.

[MUMMIBOO]

Ive never heard of a shisha cafe whats one of them?

[***Mr D***]

Originally Posted by MUMMIBOO

Ive never heard of a shisha cafe whats one of them?

Google is your Friend.

http://www.shishacafesa.com/

[Ianto.W.]

This looks like 'baited hook', shisha cafe's are usually situated in areas of heavy immigration, I saw some for sale on Accy flea market, good one willow it will be interesting to see if a way is found round this.

[WillowTheWhisp]

There's one in Blackburn on Darwen St.

This is definitely for social smoking

[jambutty]

Those hookah pipes were also used for smoking dope, mainly opium and hashish.

For a brief history on the hookah have a look at http://www.shishapipe.net/

[garinda]

There are loads of cafes in central London that have them, particularly in Bayswater.

I used to pop in after I'd had my after work swim, for a coffee and a smoke.

Only tobacco, made it certainly hits the spot.

[mani]

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yeah loads of folks are really unhappy these are closing - if you go to edgeware rd in london you see a whole line of these places - some are so busy they open 24 hrs!!

i'm a regular shisha goer - and one of hte main reasons i go is that its not smoking at home etc. its social and relaxing - a laugh and joke etc. as much as i want one at home i'd never have one wiht kids around.

it seemed at some point they might be excluded but then the govt saw the probs it would have to enforce such a thing.

there's quite a few on wilmslow road too - musicana, shisha etc

[Lolly]

I've never used one but always wanted to. My mum had one in Tunisia that was Apple flavour and also a Cherry flavour. They should not be banned in the shops that are specifically for this. Its pathetic. I wonder if they have one in the pub in Westminster, the one that all the MPs go in, the one that will not enforce the smoking ban (funny that eh??)

[WillowTheWhisp]

Surely of the raison d'être for a shisha cafe is the smoking of shisha how can they ban smoking in them? It doesn't make sense.

[mani]

they're all gonna have to shut or change themselves to more restaurants/takeaway

they're not gonna b as busy as when they were a shisha place as most of the workers in there cant cook to save their lives

lolly we should do a meet up at a shisha place in blackburn one time

[Neil]

Originally Posted by mani

as much as i want one at home i'd never have one wiht kids around.

So you don't want the kids to get lung cancer or whatever from your smoking but you don't care that you might die from a smoking related illness and then the kids won't have a Dad.

Strange logic behind that one mate

[WillowTheWhisp]

I'll say one thing in defense of shisha - the tobacco doesn't have all the additives that cigarettes have like rocket fuel and antifreeze. It's probably nowhere near as lethal.

[katex]

Wonder if they will banish the caterpillar from 'Alice in Wonderland' ?

[shisha king]

Hookah, shisha, nargile, waterpipe, what ever you want to call it.

In no way should the hookah be considered a dope smoking pipe! Hookahs and shisha have been smoked for 100's of years and all that is traditionally smoked in the hookah is molasses tobacco, usually a unflavoured black molasses tobbacco.

The smoking catapillar featured in alice and wonderland can never be banned, or we hope not anyway, but then again it does encourage hookah smoking!


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