Believe it or not, there is one way smokers can still get their fix – at hookah bars and cafes. Smoking from a hookah – a water pipe filled with flavored tobacco – is as illegal as smoking tobacco, but some owners don’t care.

“You can’t take it away – it’s atmospheric and this place calls for hookahs and decadence,” says Salam al-Rawi, who owns Mamlouk in the East Village.

Even at restaurants where hookah smoking is relegated to the back garden, it’s still a much more luxurious experience than lighting up yet another in a chain of Marlboros.

Mamlouk (211 E. 4th Street, bet. avenues A and B, [212] 529-3477) offers separate hookah-only smoking rooms (and a $15 surcharge for the pipe).

Moustache (265 East 10th street, near 1st Ave., [212] 228-2022) and Kapadokya (142 Montague Street, bet. Clinton and Henry Sts., Brooklyn, [718] 875-2211) have patios out back for hookah (and cigarette) smoking.

Café Cairo (189 E. Houston Street, bet. Orchard and Ludlow streets, [212] 529-2923) features 35 different flavors of tobacco for its pipes.

Le Souk (47 Ave B, bet. 3rd and 4th streets, [212] 777-545) provides hookahs in the backyard garden – and accentuates the experience with belly dancers.

At Sahara East (184 1st Ave, at 11th St., [212] 353-9000), patrons drink mint tea with their hookahs in the back garden.

And the Egyptian Coffee Shop (25-49 Steinway Street, Queens, [718] 777-5517), offers hookahs indoors – but banishes cigarette smokers to the backyard.