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Article: Hookah lounges are growing in Baltimore area
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- The Daily Record (Baltimore)
- Article date:
- June 25, 2009
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Every Friday and Saturday night, in Zeeba Lounge, there are belly
dancers, Middle Eastern music, crowds both inside and in line
outside, and clouds of fragrant smoke.
Zeeba Lounge is, despite the nightclub atmosphere, a one-room
hookah bar, one of a handful in Maryland and a rapidly growing
nationwide trend despite the hookah's history of being reserved for
maharajas and sultans.
A hookah is a water pipe with a chamber at the top which,
usually, holds tobacco, or, because of the state's Clean Indoor Air
act, a tobacco-free substitute, called shisha. On top of this
chamber is a sheet of tin foil, upon which is placed a coal to heat
the shisha.
Shisha comes in a plethora of flavors, from ...