Smoke Shops Catch Fire

But one is quickly snuffed out

by Sally Mitani

posted 5/17/2012

In the last half-decade we've seen restaurant smoking outlawed and medicinal marijuana legalized. Hookahs and cigars seem to hover on the fringes of trendiness--now they're in, now they're out. All told, the smokers' situation has gotten more complex, and smoke shops have stepped into the breach.

Three new smoke shops have staked out territory in the last several months, though one of them is already out of business.

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