City council to consider recommended crackdown on shisha bars

CALGARY – A city committee is recommending amendments to Calgary's smoking and vaping bylaws that would eliminate the use of shisha pipes in restaurants. The Committee on Community and Protective Services will deliver its report to council on Wednesday that includes a recommendation to classify shisha — the smoking of flavoured tobacco through water pipes — under the same rules that govern the smoking of cigarettes. The change would make it illegal to use the water pipes in res