I know it’s bad but love it anyway, say teenagers

ABU DHABI: Even during extreme hot weather in the country, business at shisha outlets in the capital never runs dry.

Haris Abdul Kader from the Brazilian Trading Establishment, Abu Dhabi, said that the shisha or hookah is very much “in vogue” in the UAE and is a popular cultural practice. “Because of its social aspects, hookah or shisha will continue to gain loyal smokers because it is also traditional.”

Tobacco Business Owner Pleads Guilty To Structuring Financial Transactions

An owner of a Rockholds, Ky. tobacco business admitted in federal court Wednesday that her company illegally conducted financial transactions to avoid reporting them to the federal government.

Dennise Crawford, 44, pleaded guilty in London, Ky. before U.S. District Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove to one count of willfully causing a financial institution to fail to comply with record keeping and reporting regulations.

Kansas House gives preliminary OK to extending smoking ban to casinos

TOPEKA — The House preliminarily agreed Tuesday to take the smoking ban passed into law last year a step further by prohibiting smoking in casinos.

Substitute House Bill 2340 revokes the section of the Kansas Indoor Clean Air Act that permits smoking in state-owned casinos.

A final vote is set for tdoay.

Many bar owners have protested that the law hurts their businesses.

As amendments were debated, many legislators argued that the effects of secondhand smoke merit government-imposed restrictions. Others contended that the state should not involve itself in peoples' private lives.

Hampton police seek three men in business robbery

Police are looking for three men who robbed a business in the first block of West Mercury Boulevard Saturday night.

About 11 p.m., the armed men went into Hampton Pipe and Tobacco and demanded money from a clerk, police wrote in a news release. After the robbery, the men fled the store and headed toward Doolittle Road.

One of the men is described as black, 5 feet 10 or 11 inches tall with a thin build. He was wearing dark pants, a dark jacket, light-colored sweatshirt with a hood, gloves and a dark bandana on his face.