Smoking Bylaws And The Shisha Exemption

[bookley]

A friend posted this essay on the balance between protecting a population's health and fostering a cosmopolitan culture.

 

The thing about the old-school tobacconist and the shisha café, the
thing that makes them worthy of exemption, I think, is delicateness.
While stale cigarette smoke that gathers in a bar over time comes to
feel like death—in these other places there is a sweetness. Dried fruits
and spices, nuts and distant floral notes you can’t quite put your
finger on. Clouds of shisha smoke hang differently in the air than
cigarette smoke. There’s a silkiness. There are long winding hoses,
pipes and vases and bowls and special charcoal and a whole practice to
managing heat for best effect. You feel all four centuries of the
tradition. This equates to a calmness, which one doesn’t find in rush
hour or fast food drive thrus and big box malls.

 

http://veryethnic.wordpress.com/2013/06/16/the-exemption-for-double-apple-shisha-cuban-cigars-and-86-other-foreign-delights/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[â€On]

To be honest, none of that matters. At all. Policy makers are not visiting these places. They see them as affronts to existing smoking bylaws, ones that say you can't smoke anything there. They see it as burning, not cooking, of tobacco. The majority of people in this municipalities feel that hookah cafes are getting around a bylaw that they shouldn't be able to. Read the comment section here and you'll have a pretty good idea what the average joe thinks: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/story/2013/06/05/edmonton-hookah-shisha-smoking-ban-alberta.html?autoplay=true

[KnightHawk63]

Humanity makes me want to end my life. The sheer ignorance from some people is just too rich.

[Chreees]

To be honest, none of that matters. At all. Policy makers are not visiting these places. They see them as affronts to existing smoking bylaws, ones that say you can't smoke anything there. They see it as burning, not cooking, of tobacco. The majority of people in this municipalities feel that hookah cafes are getting around a bylaw that they shouldn't be able to. Read the comment section here and you'll have a pretty good idea what the average joe thinks: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/story/2013/06/05/edmonton-hookah-shisha-smoking-ban-alberta.html?autoplay=true

 

I found RedneckLady to be very credible with her post.

 

:lol:

[â€On]

To be honest, none of that matters. At all. Policy makers are not visiting these places. They see them as affronts to existing smoking bylaws, ones that say you can't smoke anything there. They see it as burning, not cooking, of tobacco. The majority of people in this municipalities feel that hookah cafes are getting around a bylaw that they shouldn't be able to. Read the comment section here and you'll have a pretty good idea what the average joe thinks: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/story/2013/06/05/edmonton-hookah-shisha-smoking-ban-alberta.html?autoplay=true

 

I found RedneckLady to be very credible with her post.

 

:lol:

 

LOL. I knew there must be a reason we were thought of as the Texas of Canada!

[Bawhee]

Those comments are a blatant display of ignorance and bigotry. Most of them anyways, the up voted ones.