New York’s smoking ban created special exemptions for hookah pipes but not cigarettes

Evidence

After New York mayor Michael Bloomberg outlawed smoking in bars and restaurants, a few establishments that were tobacco-related, including this one, were able to get special exemption licenses for the pipes. But cigarettes are not included in the exemptions, so No Smoking signs are taped without irony all over the café. — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 566 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Shisha cafés obtained smoking exemptions, though cigarettes stayed banned inside them — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 566

Broader Connections

• Shisha cafés obtained smoking exemptions, though cigarettes stayed banned inside them #expands (0.97) — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 566