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It might smell like strawberry, but it’s still tobacco — Can hookah be healthy?

March 24, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

When you walk through the touristy Pike-Pine corridor in downtown Seattle, it’s hard to miss the smoke shops that pervade the area. On the ground level window display of Smoke Plus, on the busy intersection of Pike and First Ave., there are boxes of cigars, glass pipes of various colors and sizes, and a lineup of grandiose hookah pipes with long coils shoved against each other. A sweet scent permeates the shop’s perimeter that leads down to the basement.

Filed Under: Feature stories, Health Tagged With: 2015, Columbia University, Double Apple, First Ave, Go Ask Alice Compared, International District, Iran, Laura Blinkhorn, Mayo Clinic, Middle Eastern, Mo Kairbash, Pete Holmes, Sameer Iqbal, Seattle City Attorney, Seattle Downtown Public Health Center, Smoke Plus, VSCO, WNPA2016

EDITORIAL: Yes, there is Asian homelessness

March 12, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Why do we not address the homeless Asian community more? Yes, it is actually a problem. And it is also especially ignored when it comes to the female Asian population. The male Asian population might be more noticeable due to less fear of panhandling and perhaps a tendency to be more aggressive when absolving their […]

Filed Under: Editorials Tagged With: 2015, First Ave, Fred Meyer, Hong Kong, International District, Lake Washington Technical College, Occidental Park, Occidental Square, Pioneer Square, Rita Yu, San Francisco, Seattle, Vietnamese, Vol 34 No 12 | March 14 - March 20

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