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Re:Death of the Neighborhood Bar by wry_discontent on Sunday August 11, 2019 @03:45PM (#20670026)
There's a hookah bar by my apartment that has just the vibe I crave from a coffee shop. It takes ~1 hour to smoke a whole hookah, and you can go with some friends, socialize, work quietly, and they don't blast music. I believe it's like that because it's next to a university and usually full of students. Other ones around me aren't like that.

Unfortunately, it comes with some dangers...nicotine.

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Re:Death of the Neighborhood Bar by rexgallorum2 on Sunday August 11, 2019 @07:37PM (#20671242)
Good points. Pubs, tea houses, hookah bars, cafés, etc. serve a similar function as local gathering places in a number of cultures. It's important that you won't be pressured to leave if you don't order anything for a while.
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Re:Death of the Neighborhood Bar by Mediterraneo10 on Sunday August 11, 2019 @04:02PM (#20670128)
> Unfortunately, it comes with some dangers...nicotine.

The days of hookah bars in many locations are probably numbered, since public health is focusing on gradually reducing tobacco use to zero. For the time being hookah tobacco might still be sold for someone to use in the privacy of their own home, but forbidding smoking hookahs in public spaces is a simple and effective step that the authorities can take.

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