Posts Tagged ‘Flavored Tobacco’

FDA concerned dissolvable tobacco appeals to kids

The Food and Drug Administration is saying in letters to two tobacco companies that flavored, dissolvable tobacco products – that the agency compares with candy and says contain a lot of nicotine – could be particularly appealing to kids and young adults. The FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products wrote to R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., maker of Camel cigarettes, and the smaller Star Scientific Inc. on Monday voicing concern over smokeless products that are consumed like breath mints but made from finely milled tobacco. ... read more >>

Uttar Pradesh villagers rely on ‘hookah’ to keep away the cold

Hookah is no longer the luxury of the riches but now become the savior for many in Uttar Pradesh’s Khushaal Nagar village. The villagers believe that it helps them overcome certain health related problems and also to beat the intense cold as they lament that the state government has been unable to provide them with adequate facilities to fight against the cold. ... read more >>

No Ban Here: Some hookah bars are simply ignoring state’s new no-smoking law

Now that North Carolina’s no-smoking law has taken effect, most bars and restaurants across the state have thrown away their ashtrays and herded smokers to outdoor patios. But a few bars are openly flouting the new law, allowing people to puff away indoors as much as ever. The ones doing so are hookah bars, and their owners argue that, because of a linguistic loophole in the law, the smoking ban doesn’t apply to hookah smoking. ... read more >>

Setting down their cigarettes, teenagers take up the hookah

Ryan Baucom, the co-owner of a downtown Sarasota nightspot that caters to the 18-25 crowd, has turned to an old custom to attract young customers. At The Box Social club, Baucom recently started renting out a hookah. Business is so good he plans to buy another. “It’s becoming more and more popular,” he said. In higher numbers than those who frequently smoke cigarettes, teenagers are trying hookahs: water pipes from the Middle East that use coals to burn flavored tobacco. ... read more >>

Hookah Bliss Owner Will Defy Smoking Ban

The owner of a Chapel Hill hookah bar says he will defy the state’s new smoking ban that has ensnared his business but exempted other types of smoking establishments. Adam Bliss, owner of Hookah Bliss, believes the ban is discriminatory. He will continue to sell hookahs and alcohol beginning Jan. 2, the day it becomes illegal to smoke in most North Carolina bars and restaurants. ... read more >>

Ohio’s tobacco-prevention funding rank falls

In 2007, Ohio ranked 13th in the nation for tobacco prevention funding. This year, the state landed in 45th place. The Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids, in conjunction with the American Heart Association, American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, American Lung Association and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, released its annual report Dec. 9 with grim numbers for anti-tobacco campaigners. ... read more >>

Hookah lounge to open on Evansville’s East Side

Business partners Khaled Elkhal and Mohammed Metoui plan to bring a hookah lounge to 519 N. Green River Road for reflecting on the ancient hookah smoking practice, which originated in India and spread across the Middle East. ... read more >>

31st Street neighbors wary of hookah bar

NEWARK — Although thoughts about a potential hookah lounge on 31st Street are mixed, most of the neighbors are of a single mind: They don’t want it. ... read more >>

Hookah lounge hopes to open in Newark by Oct. 30

NEWARK– Two local men hoping to build a hookah lounge in Newark received approval from the Newark Zoning Board of Appeals on Thursday to continue the project. ... read more >>

Bay Area hooked on hookah

On a recent Friday night in Palo Alto, three young women sat at a sidewalk table outside an old brick building that once housed Mills the Florist, a shop that has gone up in smoke. In its place is Da Hookah Spot, a lounge where people gather to puff flavored tobacco from a water pipe for hours at a time. ... read more >>

The Angry Few Who Oppose the FDA’s Ban on Flavored Tobacco

Yesterday, as word spread that the FDA banned candy-flavored tobacco, policy experts cheered the news and cigarette makers condemned it. About what you’d expect. Rather than rehash the standard fare, the Atlantic Wire went beyond the usual commentators to find the folks directly impacted–those who actually smoke strawberry cigarettes (or have moms who do). Here’s who cares and what they think: ... read more >>