Smoking ban raid on shisha pipes

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Premises suspected of being used to smoke shisha pipes have been raided.

Environmental health officers from Birmingham went into Mojo's, in Selly Oak, saying they had been tipped off it was being used for shisha pipe smoking.

Shisha is an Arabic water-pipe in which fruit-scented tobacco is burnt and inhaled through a hose - now illegal under the smoking ban.

Officers said lit shisha were discovered and 13 people issued with fixed-penalty notices.

Under the smoking ban, shisha, like cigarettes, cannot be smoked in enclosed premises which are open to the public.

The site was raided after environmental health officers got a warrant issued by Birmingham Magistrates' Court.