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documents. They started selling beer and wine more than two years ago, and those sales make up about 20 percent of profits.
• Hookah smoking, which originated in India and the Middle East, involves using water pipes with burning charcoal to ingest tobacco. Wesolick said the tobacco product in a hookah pipe produces vapor, not smoke.
• The motion for an injunction "is a temporary measure until we get in front of the judge," he added.
• "The statute does not ban all tobacco use or even nicotine delivery systems. Other non-smoking uses of tobacco products are left alone," Wesolick argued in court documents.
• "Obviously, the statute does not broadly implicate all activities that involve or result in odors, aromas, fragrances, incense, scents, vapors, mists, and the like. Only

the acts of smoking tobacco and carrying a lighted tobacco product are prohibited by the statute."
• A court date hasn't been set.

SD officials seek penalty for unemployment fraud
CHET BROKAW,Associated Press

• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- The South Dakota Labor Department has proposed changing state law to impose an additional penalty on people who file fraudulent claims for unemploy

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