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Hookah parlours will continue to be unregulated in Toronto until at least next year. City staff is expected to bring back a detailed examination of health issues related to these ad hoc locations where one can smoke different substances. Tobacco is popular as are various fruit flavoured herbal mixtures. They are smoked through a water pipe that heats the substance with charcoal and cools the smoke in a water chamber before it is inhaled through a hose and mouthpiece. The licensing committee turned down a proposal to regulate parlours mostly out of a concern that the move might give them credibility with young people. There were views expressed that no matter how the hookah is used it is unhealthy. It is apparently legal for kids to smoke the herbal stuff but not tobacco. But who knows what’s going on at your local hookah palace. CBC.ca
