Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe LINCOLN, Neb., Feb. 10 (UPI) -- A Turkish club that features hookahs, the water pipes popular in the Mideast, has fallen afoul of a Nebraska city's anti-smoking law. Sultana's Kahve is a private club in Lincoln that provides a place where its members can find familiar food and Turkish coffee. Until recently, the club also offered puffs of scented tobacco, a popular way of passing the time in coffee shops at the eastern end of the Mediterranean, the Lincoln Journal Star reports. Advertisement Bruce Dart, director of the Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department, notified the club that it was in violation of an ordinance banning smoking at all businesses, even private clubs. The club had been in operation for more than a year. Authorities learned smoking was going on from a teenager who had been functioning as an undercover enforcer of tobacco regulations. Jamal Husein, the owner of the Kahve, plans to fight. For one thing, he is going to move the club to downtown Lincoln where, his lawyer argues, the smoking ban does not specifically mention hookahs and should not apply to private clubs with no employees.
