Savannah's proposed smoking ban has Hookah bar owners upset and worried.
Jump to full article: WSAV NBC Channel 3 (Savannah, GA), 2010-07-21
Author: Andrew Davis
Intro: In Savannah there are a pair of hookah bars.
At the Mirage it's lunch and dinner during the day, hookah late nights.
The owners told me they have only been open about 5 months, and when they applied for a business license, no one told them about a possible ban.
Mirage says get rid of the hookah and you made end their business.
They make about 25%t of their money off the 10pm and later smoking. . . .
And while there are nearly 1000 ingredients and chemicals in cigarettes, Middle Eastern's owner, points out the hookah tobacco is much more natural, and not as harmful.
He says most folks just come in to try a hookah once or twice, relax and enjoy. And don't keep smoking afterwards.
As for business, it wouldn't destroy his business, but he says most of Middle Eastern's hookah customers are tourists.
The ban it would affect his bottom line, a lot.
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