Will Smoking Be Banned in Hong Kong Cigar Bars?

Luxist.com ^ | Jun 6, 2005, 6:58 AM ET | Deidre Woollard

[martin_fierro]

Will Smoking Be Banned in Hong Kong Cigar Bars?

Posted Jun 6, 2005, 6:58 AM ET by Deidre Woollard

Hong Kong is joining California and New York [and CUBA! --mf] in banning smoking in covered public places like bars and restaurants. The smoking bill goes in to effect next year. For cigar bars and shops, this is a big issue that effects their revenue. In other places exemptions have been made for cigar bars and clubs and Hong Kong cigar lovers are hoping for the same treatment. Cigar shop owners interviewed in this article in The Standard support the ban in restaurants and other venues but hope that they will still be allowed to let their clients enjoy cigars in their shops.

[martin_fierro]

Kalifornia was waaaay ahead of Cuba and Red China on this one.

[martin_fierro]

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[Pompah]

I can only hope that when the time comes when all these Anti-Smoking Zealots are pleased with themselves and their
years of thankless work I'll be off the Planet.

By the way, if I have any of my Montecristo #2's left on that day, They'll be in the casket with me.

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

Realize real liberalism.

[Graycliff]

Gonna get way to humid in that casket for something as fine as a Montecristo # 2.

You should leave those with me. I ain't leaving until my humidors are empty, and thats gonna take a while.

[SW6906]

One of my most cherished memories is smoking a Cohiba Siglo IV in the Cigar Bar & Billiards room in the Raffles Hotel in Singapore. I heard a few years back that the benevolent dictatorship of Singapore banned smoking in all indoor spaces. I wonder if it included this incredible historical hotel and it's bar......they had a humidor the size of a wardrobe! They waiter would light your cigar for you by lighting a cedar stick, then lighting your cigar, then getting it going by waving it around in a circle - all while you waited patiently sipping your drink. It may all be no more.