Escondido CA Denies Hookah Lounges to Open
As I was reading the story, it seemed like another classic case of a bias city counsel that rejects the idea of letting entrepreneurs open up hookah lounges. Do not forget that this would create some jobs for people. Here is an awesome quote.
“Dannah Hosford of the Vista Community Clinic said smoking a hookah pipe for 20 minutes was equivalent to smoking 100 cigarettes, and she also said the use of communal pipes could spread herpes, tuberculosis or other diseases.”
Ok Dannah, and how did you come to that conclusion? First off, the amount of tobacco in my hookah bowl is no where near the amount in 100 cigarettes. How can my bowl, which would have less tobacco than 100 cigarettes, possibly be the same as smoking 100 cigarettes. Do not forget the chemistry differences between smoking from a hookah and smoking a cigarette. A cigarette BURNS tobacco, and a hookah BAKES tobacco. Apparently Dannah is ignorant and thinks that smoking tobacco in a hookah is the same as cigarettes. Lets not forget that garbage chemicals are put into cigarettes, and in hookah tobacco, you have sugar and artificial flavor added. Smoking hookah spreads Herpes? Are you serious? First of all, you use a plastic mouth piece on the hookah hose. I haven’t even heard of a story where someone got herpes from smoking a hookah at a hookah lounge.
Apparently there were a number of people who wanted to open a hookah lounge in Escondido. I feel your pain guys. If anyone who hates the idea of people smoking hookah is reading this, can you answer my question? Why do you care if people open a hookah lounge? Why don’t you get irate and yell at the jackass who is smoking a cigarette 3 feet away from the hospital door? You don’t see people who smoke hookahs bothering you, do you? Spare some time to actually see what the difference is between smoking a hookah pipe and smoking a cigarette. The tobacco is no where near the same, and it does not produce tar because of the low temperature a hookah bakes the tobacco at.
It upsets me when I hear of town counsels knocking down hookah lounges.
/Rant
btw you can read the article where I was reading the news from here: NCTimes