Indoor Smoking Laws? (Phoenix, Tempe: to buy, exemptions, law)

[KarmaPhx]

Does anyone know how exactly Hookah bars continue to operate with the new smoking laws? Hookah's do use shisha, which is tobacco, so I figured the laws would apply?

[nitram]

Check these sites out and maybe call some of them for your answers:
Smoking Hookah Bars in Phoenix - Google Search

[OctoberMoon]

Well I'm guessing it has something to do with choice. If you go to a hookah bar, you know you are going to be around smoke, so just don't go if you don't want to inhale secondhand smoke. In a regular resturaunt, you didn't have much a a choice back when people could still smoke in them. Same with bars.

I'm sure since the purpose of a hookah bar is to smoke, they are excluded from the law.

[KarmaPhx]

Originally Posted by nitram

Check these sites out and maybe call some of them for your answers:
Smoking Hookah Bars in Phoenix - Google Search

That doesn't help the lest bit, why did you even waste your time posting?

[RCR]

Originally Posted by NAU_Josh

That doesn't help the lest bit, why did you even waste your time posting?

Why did you?? There is this thing called a telephone and you could just call the bars and ask them directly. I am sure they would be able to tell you what you want to know.

[Captain Bill]

Originally Posted by NAU_Josh

That doesn't help the lest bit, why did you even waste your time posting?

Nitram spent his own time trying to help you out by pointing you to some url's where you could begin to read about the issue. Most people are appreciative when someone takes their time to help, even if it is not exactly what one is looking form.

If you will read some of those articles, and then research the Arizona Revised Statutes (laws) online regarding smoking, then you should find the answer you're looking for.

The local ordinances, such as Tempe, Phoenix, etc may be more restrictive than the state laws, so you need to research the laws in each city.

By doing a little research on your own, you'll be able to answer your own question.

[w1ngzer0]

Originally Posted by KarmaPhx

Does anyone know how exactly Hookah bars continue to operate with the new smoking laws? Hookah's do use shisha, which is tobacco, so I figured the laws would apply?

The few places i visit, to shy to buy anything, have open smoking in their place. Which makes sense, its a pipe shop.

[dsushi]

Octobermoon is on the money. You can still smoke in a smoke shop, although there are a small minoity who choose to not allow their customers to smoke inside. It is kind of a no brainer for a cigarette nazi to avoid tobacco shops...

[Finger Laker]

cigar bars are exempted as well, although I don't know the particulars of the law

[Finger Laker]

a quick look gives us this:

Smoke Free Arizona

that led to the more wordy explanation here:

http://www.azdhs.gov/diro/admin_rule...87-phs-edc.pdf

first site I went to was the tobacco control network. They seem a little nutty to me. They are looking for ways to combat the exceptions for hookah/cigar bars to maintain safe working conditions for employees in such establishments.

Uhm, if you don't like smoking - why would you work in such a place?!