Hookah bar exemption dropped

Submitted by bkrueger on August 1, 2009 - 12:27pm.
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An effort to exempt hookah bars from the new statewide ban on smoking in bars and restaurants appears to be dead for this year.

James Romoser reports in the Winston-Salem Journal that Rep. Cullie Tarleton is dropping his bill to exempt hookah bars from the ban, which goes into effect in January.

Tarleton pulled the bill after hookah bar owners objected to amendements to the bill that they said would put unfair restrictions on them.

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Re: Hookah bar exemption dropped

Submitted by BitterEXdemocrat on August 2, 2009 - 7:13pm.

Yet again, more NC democrackkk oppressive control...and you people still vote for them...

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Re: Hookah bar exemption dropped

Submitted by scharrison on August 1, 2009 - 5:29pm.

Okay, I must be having a bad "comprehension" day or something.

The hookah bar lobby :) opposed this (amended) bill because it would put too many restrictions on them. But without an exemption, there won't be any hookah smoking at all after January, right?

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Re: Hookah bar exemption dropped

Submitted by cjmalone on August 1, 2009 - 5:01pm.

While I support the new statewide ban on smoking in bars and restaurants, it seems unfair to not exempt hookah bars when the high scale cigar bars can stay in business. I don't smoke and have never been in a hookah bar, but I understand that nobody would go into one unless they were there for the express purpose to smoke what ever they smoke--it's not pot, by the way.

Charles Malone
Candidate for Democratic nomination to NC Senate Dist. 15, in 2010

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