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New Smoke Shop to Open in April in South Whitehall

Allentown Smoke Shop will open in April in the shopping plaza that includes Kmart.

A new smoke shop is coming to South Whitehall.

Allentown Smoke Shop will open in early April in the 4700 block of Tilghman Street, in the shopping plaza that includes and .

The shop will offer a full line of cigarettes and make-your-own cigarettes, pipes and pipe tobacco, chewing tobacco and premium cigars, said Jai Raskapur, of Nazareth, whose wife Sweta Raskapur is one of several owners.

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Raskapur said the construction work is almost completed. The 2,000-square-foot shop could be open by April 7, he said, or a few days later.

Raskapur and the owners have another shop in the Poconos, but he said he has wanted to do something in the Lehigh Valley. "No one has the selection that I'm looking to give," he said.

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