# Central Smoke & Vape, Arlington Heights IL: Reviews

Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/il/arlington-heights/central-smoke-and-vape-arlington-heights-il. Free to reuse with a link back.

By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated 2026-09-16.

Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/il/arlington-heights/central-smoke-and-vape-arlington-heights-il

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## In short

Central Smoke & Vape is a smoke shop in Arlington Heights, IL. Its AI Score is 50 of 100, which is fair.

What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks


## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Type | Smoke shop |
| Address | 1731 E Central Rd, Arlington Heights, IL 60005, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Sat 8 AM to 12 AM · Sun 10 AM to 10 PM |
| Phone | (224) 875-7126 |
| Rating | 4.9 across 144 reviews on Google |
| Quietest time | Saturday |
| Updated | September 16, 2026 |


## All the details

Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.

| Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Location info | Address | 1731 E Central Rd, Arlington Heights, IL 60005, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Description | KRATOM " THC,THCA,THCB,CBD, DELTA PRODUCTS DISPENSARY , HOOKAH TO GOO,HOOKAH TOBACCO, GLASS PIPE,WATER PIPE,CIGARILLOS , PAPERS DRY TOBACCO ROLLING TOBACCO DRINKS &more… | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Sat 8:00 AM to 12:00 AM · Sun 10:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Name | Central Smoke & Vape | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Phone | (224) 875-7126 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Monday | 8:00 AM to 12:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Tuesday | 8:00 AM to 12:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Wednesday | 8:00 AM to 12:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Thursday | 8:00 AM to 12:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Friday | 8:00 AM to 12:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Saturday | 8:00 AM to 12:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Sunday | 10:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |


## Services and prices

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### Known for

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## The team

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## Visiting Central Smoke

Address: 1731 E Central Rd, Arlington Heights, IL 60005, USA. Phone: (224) 875-7126. Hours: Mon to Sat 8 AM to 12 AM · Sun 10 AM to 10 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)


### Location info from Google Business Profile

From Google Business Profile: "KRATOM " THC,THCA,THCB,CBD, DELTA PRODUCTS DISPENSARY , HOOKAH TO GOO,HOOKAH TOBACCO, GLASS PIPE,WATER PIPE,CIGARILLOS , PAPERS DRY TOBACCO ROLLING TOBACCO DRINKS &more…"


### When to go

Quietest day: Saturday. Busiest day: Monday. From the popular times on its Google listing.


### Parking and getting in

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### Nearby

| Place | Type | Distance |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Tortorice's Pizza | Pizza restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Taco Town Mexican Grill | Mexican restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Valeo Meals Healthy Food | Restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Mr Allison's Restaurant | Breakfast restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Melas Park | Parking lot | 3 min walk |
| Melas Park Softball - Mt Prospect | Park | 5 min walk |


## Reputation

4.9 average across 144 reviews: Google 144. (Confirmed, read September 16, 2026.)

Central Smoke & Vape stands out for its knowledgeable staff and extensive product range, despite some operational inconsistencies. (AI guess, from 144 reviews.)


### What people like

- Wide selection of products
- Great prices and deals


### What people do not like

- Inconsistent pricing practices
- Closing before listed hours
- Long waits for service


### Press

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### Awards

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### Directories

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## Questions people ask


### what do people usually buy there


### what time does Central Smoke in Arlington Heights actually open?


### address for the shop, anyone have it?


### worth it or not, what do the regulars say


### Coffee near Central Smoke on Central?


### is Arlington Heights expensive for this, or is it just here


### bad experiences at Central Smoke, anyone?


### points or member pricing here, worth signing up?


### Do they post anywhere?


### best smoke shop in Arlington Heights


### anything I should sort out before a first visit at Central Smoke?


### Ballpark for a visit to a shop in Arlington Heights?


### cancellation list here, is there one


### Busiest day at Central Smoke, anyone know?


### which one, the shop or Luxury Smoke?


## What AI gets wrong about Central Smoke

We ask ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity about Central Smoke. These are the answers that don’t match this page.

ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 23, 2026. Perplexity and Gemini via DataForSEO on Oct 23, 2026.

| Fact | What AI says | What this page says |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Address | Perplexity via DataForSEO on Oct 23, 2026: 807 W Rand Rd | 1731 E Central Rd, Arlington Heights, IL 60005, USA |


## The AI Score: 50 of 100

It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Arlington Heights smoke shops run 21 to 50. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Central Smoke scores 50, above the Arlington Heights average of 29. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Central Smoke |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | Does not apply | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. |  |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 28 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor |
| AI visibility | 14 | 62 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Fair |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 78 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good |
| Backlink & citation authority | 8 | Does not apply | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. |  |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 78 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 | Does not apply | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. |  |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | Does not apply | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. |  |

Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology

How AI decides what to say about a smoke shop: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-local-business. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-local-business


## Entity map

Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other.

| Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to Central Smoke |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Central Smoke & Vape | LocalBusiness | #business |  | Subject of this page |
| Arlington Heights, Illinois | City | #city |  | City Central Smoke is in |
| Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page |
| Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee | Author of this page |


## Topical map

Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the smoke shops in Arlington Heights, linked to the lists and towns around it.


### Lists

- Best smoke shops in Arlington Heights: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/arlington-heights/smoke-shop
- Best businesses in Arlington Heights: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/arlington-heights


### Nearby

- /chicago: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/chicago
- /schaumburg: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/schaumburg
- /elgin: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/elgin
- /carol-stream: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/carol-stream
- /lombard: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/lombard
- /aurora: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/aurora


### Every list

- Every leaderboard in Illinois: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il


## References


### Sources cited

- [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJC9PDgPS7D4gRGeL0LKfyiGU (accessed Sep 16, 2026)