Hookah bar workers inhale hazardous levels of toxins: study
Workers at New York City hookah bars are inhaling hazardous levels of second-hand smoke, according to a study released Monday. NYU researchers, who tested 10 hookah-bar workers when their shifts ended,...
View ArticleMayor de Blasio wants to ban chewing tobacco from baseball
Baseball players may soon have to become real Skoal bandits if they want to keep chewing tobacco at the city’s ballparks — as Mayor Bill de Blasio moved Thursday to ban tobacco from public places such...
View ArticleMan shot 4 times during hookah bar fight
A 38-year-old man was shot four times in a fight that began at a Queens hookah bar early Saturday morning, cops said. The victim, identified as an off-duty emergency medical services officer, quarreled...
View ArticleBullets fly in Greenwich Village after fight at hookah bar
Where there was smoke there was gunfire in Greenwich Village early Sunday morning, police said. Three men were shot after a dispute broke out in a hookah bar on Bleecker Street shortly before 4 a.m.,...
View ArticleHookah lounge security guard shoots man after fight breaks out
BATON ROUGE, La. — Authorities say a security guard at a Louisiana hookah lounge shot and killed a man and wounded two others following a fight at the business. Baton Rouge police spokesman Sgt. L’Jean...
View ArticleHookah bar employee dropped hot coals on my neck: suit
A Manhattan man is suing a Queens hookah bar for giving him the coal shoulder. Gustavo Galvao, 35, charges he was “severely burned” at The Melody Lounge in Astoria after an employee dropped searing...
View Article2 stabbed, 2 arrested after wild brawl at hookah bar
Two men were stabbed and two others arrested when a brawl broke out at a Brooklyn hookah bar early Monday, police said. Video posted to YouTube shows the fight, at Marthitas Bar & Grill in...
View ArticleSeven people shot at bar in West Virginia on New Year’s Day
HUNTINGTON, W. Va. — Seven people were injured in a shooting at a bar in West Virginia early New Year’s Day, police said. The shooting happened early Wednesday at the Kulture Hookah Bar in Huntington,...
View ArticlePass the hookah? Risky restaurant-goers share a smoke amid COVID
Patrons at Prospect Park Restaurant in Houston, Texas, didn’t seem to be social-distancing. A viral video from inside the eatery shows diners smoking a hookah and not wearing face masks. “For people...
View ArticleTwo NYPD cops caught smoking hookah while on shooting-prevention duty
These cops were supposed to be preventing shootings — but instead they were just blowing smoke. A pair of NYPD officers posted up on a Bronx street corner to deter shootings amid the city’s...
View ArticleJamel Flint arrested in fatal shooting at hookah lounge near Virginia Tech
Jamel Flint, 24, whom authorities said should be considered armed and dangerous, allegedly carried out the shooting at Melody Hookah Lounge near Virginia Tech’s campus shortly before midnight on Friday.
View ArticleGunman accused of killing man outside of Tennessee hookah bar still at large
Police are searching for 21-year-old Jamar Adam Marks, who allegedly opened fire into a crowd after an altercation, Murfreesboro Police officials told a local outlet.
View Article14 shot, one killed at Las Vegas hookah lounge
Fourteen people -- one of whom died and two of whom were critically hurt -- were shot early Saturday at a Las Vegas hookah parlor, cops said.
View ArticleLas Vegas suspect nabbed in hookah lounge shooting rampage; one victim dead
A suspect has been arrested in connection with a Las Vegas hookah lounge shooting Saturday that left one victim dead and 13 others wounded, including the suspect, authorities said.
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