Court fight vowed; cut out of cigar bar exemptions
Jump to full article: Durham (NC) Herald Sun, 2010-01-01
Author: Monica Chen
Intro: am Bliss, owner of Hookah Bliss on Franklin Street, said this week that the business will stay open and possibly go to court over the smoking ban if it is fined.
"We're going to stay open long enough to get a ticket," he said. "We're going to fight them in court."
The business specializes in hookahs, which are water pipes used for smoking tobacco, and serves beer. It has been open for about two and half years at 418 W. Franklin St. in Chapel Hill.
Hookah bars were not included in the exemptions that were granted to cigar bars under the smoking ban law. Cigar bars were defined as businesses that generate at least 60 percent of their quarterly revenues from the sale of alcoholic beverages and at least 25 percent of revenues from the sale of cigars.
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