PEOPLE in East Oxford fear they will suffer sleepless nights if a restaurateur goes ahead with plans to create a ‘shisha’ garden for up to 100 smokers. Families living in Temple Street are worried revellers visiting a planned new restaurant, with an outdoor area to be used for smoking Arabic-style ‘hubbly bubbly’ pipes, will lead to the return of late night noise, which ceased in the street after the closure of the Temple Bar five months ... Jump to full article >>

A local group is pushing to pass laws that will end smoking in bars and dictate where people can smoke outside. Shelley Courington is with a group called CHART. They’re about to start lobbying state lawmakers to ban smoking in bars. They’re also pushing to keep smokers from lighting up within 25 feet of a building. “We have to have a healthy safe workforce in Tennessee. We have to make it safe for our workers, no matter what,&# ... Jump to full article >>