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Wilmington hookah bar defies smoking ban with "reality show"  

Lights! Camera! Hookah!

That's the refrain that you might hear at one local hookah bar in Wilmington. However, this has less to do with Hollywood and more to do with smoking.

Little has changed at the Juggling Gypsy Cafe and Hookah bar in Wilmington since the start of the smoking ban in North Carolina Saturday. Patrons continue to smoke. However, this is not an act of civil disobedience.

Bar manager Denny Best says bar management has found what it believes to be a loophole in the new ban, allowing customers to continue to smoke tobacco through the water pipes.

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