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10/5/2016 Faribault City Council to discuss hookah sampling's future I Archives I southernminn.com Some examples of how other cities statewide have regulated shops that allow tobacco sampling, according to various statewide city documents on the topic: — Minneapolis bans tobacco licenses in certain zoning districts, St. Paul requires additional permits before allowing shops to open — Little Canada restricts hours of operation for certain tobacco product shops — Columbia Heights limits the number of tobacco licenses in their city to five. Other cities have considered limiting licensing to tobacco product shops - which allow sampling - while allowing unlimited general tobacco licenses — Prior Lake requires training programs for employees of the shops, and St. Paul regulates the licenses density, essentially how close the shops can be to one another • Why now? Namely, health concerns in the context of the "loophole" in state law. A "typical" one-hour smoking session involves inhaling 100-200 times the volume of smoke inhaled from a single cigarette, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "I think allowing places that allow that sends the wrong message," said Sandra Kellog, a Faribault resident with two children. She said if cities have the ability to prevent that type of activity, they should. "I don't want my kids exposed to that, and as parents, we can only do so much," she said. The physics and chemistry behind smoking specialized tobacco from a hookah - the amount of puffing, the depth of inhaling - means hookah smokers may absorb higher concentrations of the same toxins found in cigarette smoke, according to a study from the American Lung Association. But in light of other pressing concerns, including a fragile economic recovery, the move to levy regulations on tobacco sampling seems poorly timed to some. http://www.southernm inn.com/faribault daily_news/archives/article a4dd2d4a-dc49-5f30-92d1-e0032aa5e32f.html 3/4