Hookah Cafe Fans Worry About Smoking Ban

June 30th, 2007 in Medicine & Health / Other
Hookah Cafe Fans Worry About Smoking Ban (AP)

Rizwan Hussain smokes a sweet tobacco water pipe outside an Edgware Road coffee shop in central London, Wednesday June 28, 2007. On July 1, 2007 new laws will forbid any smoking inside public places, and smokers will have to smoke outside. (AP Photo/Max Nash)

(AP) -- Shrouded in a sweet-smelling haze, clusters of men and women unwind as they inhale fragrant tobacco from water pipes in the myriad cafes that line London's Arab quarter.

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