Council temporarily bans hookah lounges

[The Straight Story]

Council temporarily bans hookah lounges

By The Californian | Thursday, February 5, 2009 6:56 PM PST ∞


MENIFEE ---- It looks like there won't be a hookah lounge next to Super Target anytime soon.

In response to a request to open a hookah lounge in Menifee's flagship shopping mall, the Countryside Marketplace, the City Council unanimously approved a temporary urgency ordinance banning such businesses at its meeting Tuesday.

A hookah is a water pipe used for smoking tobacco and other products. It hails from the Middle East, where it is often used at social gatherings.

Over the last few years, hookah lounges have gained popularity in America.

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2009/02/06/news/californian/menifee/z08642d8fb12d6e998825755400173459.txt

[Jackpine Radical]

1. A hookah lounge would be kinda fun.

People shouldn't be allowed to smoke tobacco in them, though.

[Mojorabbit]

2. Why not? It is legal. nt

[Jackpine Radical]

3. Because the tobacco fumes would interfere with

my enjoyment of smoking.

[NutmegYankee]

4. Water parks would be kinda fun -

But people shouldn't be allowed to swim in the water at them, though.



Seriously, WTF!

[Jackpine Radical]

5. You really don't get my point?

Young'un, in my day nobody would actually put tobacco in a hookah. They were reserved for finer things.