[fanfan]

Ping

[ASOC]

LOL

One kind if Nazi (anti-smoking) meets another kind of Nazi (Moose-limbs) — must be professional courtesy.......

[NonValueAdded]

Go ask Alice ...

[Gay State Conservative]

British Columbiastan.

[Drew68]

Quote from a related article in regards to the assertion that hookah lounges are essential for immigrants from hookah-smoking cultures:

The state, in other words, is prepared to treat Muslims as free-born adults who can weigh the "cultural value" (ie, the pleasures) of smoking against the health risks. But not the rest of us.

[blinachka]

The one foggy point in the new bylaw was whether it will apply to crack cocaine and crystal-meth smoking.

HUH?????

[Tarpon]

So what about the Marlboro man? Doesn’t he deserve the same cultural space? This PC crap is going to be the death of the world as we know it.

[Drew68]

I've noticed more often that hookah and cigar bars are being granted exemptions from anti-smoking ordinances --probably because they are trendy. This begs the question, can you go to a hookah or cigar bar and light up a cigarette?

One of the "positives" of the shameless pandering to Muslim immigrants might be in rolling back some of the smoking bans. I've been to many Islamic countries and those people are serious smokers. You can smoke everywhere --elevators, restrooms, shopping malls, airports, etc...

[Ratblaster]

600 years ago, there was no tabacco in the “old world.” The hookah was\is used for smoking hashish.
The term ‘Assassin’ is generally assumed to be derived from its connections to the Hashshashin, a militant religious sect of Ismaili Muslims, thought to be active in the Middle East in the 8th to 14th centuries. This mystic secret society killed members of the Abbasid elite for political or religious reasons.[3]

Stories claim that these early assassins were drugged during their murders, often with materials such as hashish and opium. The name assassin is derived from either hasishin for the supposed influence of the drugs, and disregard for their own lives in the process, or hassansin for their leader, Hassan-i-Sabah.

[Ratblaster]

600 years ago, there was no tabacco in the “old world.” The hookah was\is used for smoking hashish.
The term ‘Assassin’ is generally assumed to be derived from its connections to the Hashshashin, a militant religious sect of Ismaili Muslims, thought to be active in the Middle East in the 8th to 14th centuries. This mystic secret society killed members of the Abbasid elite for political or religious reasons.[3]

Stories claim that these early assassins were drugged during their murders, often with materials such as hashish and opium. The name assassin is derived from either hasishin for the supposed influence of the drugs, and disregard for their own lives in the process, or hassansin for their leader, Hassan-i-Sabah.

[muawiyah]

Automobile exhaust? Have they banned that yet?

[fortunecookie]

Hamid Mohammadian, operator of the Persian Teahouse on Davie Street, thanked council for the exemption. "We are very happy because this is our culture. I have one customer, 75 years old, who said 'I will have no other place to go if you close,'" he said.

and

City council also agreed that the city's two cigar shops, which have special smoking rooms, can operate until everyone finds out what the province's new anti-smoking regulations will be.

Hasn't smoking tobacco products been a traditional part of the cultures of the Americas, going back to the Native inhabitants, shouldn't it be protected under the same protections offered the Persian Hookah fans? Rhetorical really. Wow. Nothing to see here, nope, no favoritism or special treatment for one group over others...

[353FMG]

Mark up another win for the ROP.

[RC2]

Bend over and let them stick you in the butt again. Are people stupid? What next? Maybe we shouldn’t tax them because it may be against muslim law. Maybe we shouldn’t charge them interest on loans.....this is against muslim law, they can’t charge each other interes.....according to what I hear.

[Socratic]

But health-protection director Domenic Losito said he didn't think so, since the bylaw is aimed at cigarette smoke.

Take your bongs to the streets - filled with tobacco,of course.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Ping.

[VR-21]

Has the Nobel Prize Committe started awarding a Prize for Muslim ass-kissing?

What's the reason for this doglike groveling everywhere in the West? It's like a mass psychosis.

[freekitty]

I would come down on those lawmakers like a bat out of hell.

[isrul]

The muzzies are exempt from the law. More special accommodations will come. They are a privileged cult. And the conquered people will accept it.

[DieHard the Hunter]

Shameful.