Shisha cafés obtained smoking exemptions, though cigarettes stayed banned inside them

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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

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• CANDY: ‘No Smoking’ signs taped without irony inside a shisha café is a lovely small absurdity for cocktail conversation.