Seattle aims to clamp down on indoor smoking lounges after violence

Seattle wants to close about a dozen water pipe smoking lounges linked to three homicides and other violence over the past year and a half, its mayor said on Monday. The city is expanding its authority to revoke business licenses and pursuing criminal charges against the owner of a hookah lounge located near where a man was killed last month, Mayor Ed Murray said in a statement. “Far too many smoking lounges attract and sustain illegal, violent activity that has no place in our neighborhoods,” Murray said.
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