San Francisco, our little bastion of health consciousness, tries hard to remind us about the risks of smoking, yet for one reason or another a ton of people still do it.

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Smoke shops

Centered mostly in the Haight and the Mission are a ton of stores where one can buy smokeables like cigarettes, cloves, cigars, and tobacco, as well as smoking tools such as lighters, rolling papers, pipes and .... water pipes.

• Cole Street Smoke Shop
• Montgomery Plaza Smoke Shop
• Walla's Smoke Shop

Indoor smoking

Almost every business, including bars, bans indoor smoking. Almost. Some bars have circumvented this law by operating as a co-op, where all of the employees are owners. The law is intended to protect employees from being subjected to a perpetually smoky environment, and in a cooperatively owned establishment, this situation is eliminated. Others simply eat the fines. Below is a list of establishments to check out — or avoid.

Bars

The Castro

• Amber

The Sunset

• Mucky Duck

The Tenderloin

• Hemlock Tavern (smoking room)

Also, though Zeitgeist (in the Mission) doesn't allow smoking inside, there's a huge backyard where pretty much everyone hangs out anyway.

Clubs

SoMa

• Glas Kat Supper Club (smoking room)

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