Boston students love hookah, and every Thursday night hundreds of them hit the town and go to smoking lounges to engage in some therapeutic apple-flavored smoke inhalation. Sadly, this tried-and-true collegiate pastime activity may become a thing of the past – if the Boston Pu

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Last May, Columbia University updated the student handbook to make smoking in all dormitories illegal, and that’s not the only thing the administration took the opportunity to outlaw.

 

From the “Guide to Living”:

Smoking devices including, but not limited to, hookas & wat

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Wooden beams sprouting from the top of Quinton's downtown - hope for bar-smokers and those that are sick of hanging off the top of the 'Berg, Big Twelve or Harpo's.

But the Columbia city council has, again, stopped Quinton's from continuing construction - what's their beef? First the balcony stuc... MORE »

Looks like another CoMo bar bites the dust... or is it the smoke?

Colosseum Bistro (across the street from Trops on Broadway) will soon be shutting its doors for good after nine years of operation.

Who's to blame? Their mediocre food, lack of drink specials, or refusal to advertise? Nah. The smoking ban! Of course. Duh.

Glancing over the names of performers on the wall at the Exit/In, one would think, "Oh, this must be a cool place."  But unfortunately, the venue has failed to compensate for the smoking ban introduced in Tennessee at the beginning of October.

Previous to the smoking ban, the Exit/In's forecast for any... MORE »

Your pancakes may not taste like an ashtray anymore when you go out for breakfast, but some places miss their patrons puffing plumes in their restaurants and bars.

Take Ernie's (the yummiest little breakfast diner on Ash Street), for example. "This place just ain't the same anymore," a wait... MORE »