Hooray for Hookahs!!!

An exciting thing happened in the city of Vancouver on March 31, 2008. Hookah houses were made exempt from the new by-laws banning smoking in public places. The cafes won’t be closed down if they only serve nicotine-free herbs instead of flavoured tobacco, which means pot-free water pipe enthusiasts will still have a place to chill out, albeit for the price of $15/pipe.

While in favour of this exemption, I’m not sure how it will stick and so I continue to buy flavoured tobacco, both with and without nicotine (although one café owner did say there was no such thing as ‘nicotine free’ tobacco). It’s far cheaper to smoke in my apartment and I can serve food and other beverages if I so desire. At least I’ll continue to smoke in my apartment until the City decides it’s not in my best interest and bans that as well.