[Hookahmup]

I am looking to start a hookah lounge in colorado, I know there's already several located here. But I'd like to give it my two cents. If anyone knows the colorado indoor act and what I need to go through to start this joint please reply! This has been my dream for the past two years. I'd really like to see it to fruition.

Again thanks for reading any kind words are appreciated.

Nic

[brownbob06]

First of all, it's cool to see a fellow Hookah Smoker on this forum Second, I too have had this dream as well, and have been thinking of how to get around those same laws in Ohio.

There is one hookah bar about 50 minutes from where I live and the way they are set up is that they are just a coffe shop type place with a patio, you can only smoke on the fenced in patio outside, which would be great in the summer. But in the winter, they enclose it completely with what reminds me of an industrial quality "tent" with plastic windows. It is just as cold out there as it is outside. I'm not sure how this is not considered just being inside since it is completely enclosed anyways, but they get away with it.

A more specialized site for this question would also be Hookah Forum (Powered by Invision Power Board)

Good luck, and keep us updated!

[crackah]

*yawn* not ANOTHER Hooker thread.

See plenty of these around. Sounds like silly stuff to me.

[garrison777]

Hookahmup,

Here are the exceptions list for CO:
25-14-205. Exceptions to smoking restrictions. (1) This part 2 shall not apply to:

(a) Private homes, private residences, and private automobiles; except that this part 2 shall apply if any such home, residence, or vehicle is being used for child care or day care or if a private vehicle is being used for the public transportation of children or as part of health care or day care transportation;

(b) Limousines under private hire;
(c) A hotel or motel room rented to one or more guests if the total percentage of such hotel or motel rooms in such hotel or motel does not exceed twenty-five percent;
(d) Any retail tobacco business;
(e) A cigar-tobacco bar;
(f) An airport smoking concession;

(g) The outdoor area of any business;
(h) A place of employment that is not open to the public and that is under the control of an employer that employs three or fewer employees;
(i) A private, nonresidential building on a farm or ranch, as defined in section 39-1-102, C.R.S., that has annual gross income of less than five hundred thousand dollars; or
(j) The retail floor plan, as defined in section 12-47.1-509, C.R.S., of a licensed casino.

later,
PapaSki

[brownbob06]

Originally Posted by crackah

*yawn* not ANOTHER Hooker thread.

See plenty of these around. Sounds like silly stuff to me.

By how packed the hookah bar we have up here is and by how packed the one I go to in Houston...I wouldn't consider it silly...but whatever.

[pboychuk]

i think an oxygen bar would be better in that high altitude! who knows

[shmoeusn]

I'm having the same problem in FL. I'm still trying to find a way around the smoking ban, while still being able to serve a full lunch menu. If I've read the laws correctly, you can only serve prepackaged food if you are going to smoke indoors. (basically only bars allow smoking inside.)

[Hookahmup]

Originally Posted by shmoeusn

I'm having the same problem in FL. I'm still trying to find a way around the smoking ban, while still being able to serve a full lunch menu. If I've read the laws correctly, you can only serve prepackaged food if you are going to smoke indoors. (basically only bars allow smoking inside.)

I can actually open my hookah bar under the retail tobacco business definition. I don't know the florida laws, but the colorado ones are pretty strict. I'm going to open as a retail Hookah store, but my main objective will be to have local smokers obviously.

[DPayne]

We had one down in ocean springs, ms. I went there a few times, never picked up on the hookah trend. However, it was packed all the time. Just not my cup of tea.