Smoking's inner limits (can't smoke in cigar stores in OR)

Washington Times ^ | November 19, 2005 | Jacob Sullum

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Smoking's inner limits

By Jacob Sullum November 19, 2005

If you've gotten used to smoke-free bars, here's a new concept to wrap your mind around: smoke-free cigar lounges. This innovation comes to us courtesy of Washington state's voters, who recently approved an initiative that bans smoking in nearly every indoor location but private residences.

The ban makes no exception for businesses whose raison d'etre is tobacco consumption, even if they have ventilation systems that whisk smoke away as soon as it's produced. By forbidding smoking within 25 feet of entrances and windows, it even threatens to eliminate sidewalk smoking sections and quick outdoor cigarette breaks.

[martin_fierro]

It's not quite that bad in Kalifornia.

Yet.

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[martin_fierro]

Thanks for the meta-ping, tumbleweed_connection!

[Tijeras_Slim]

Pretty soon they'll be reduced to hiding in attics...."The Humidor of Anne Frank"

[JoeSixPack1]

"But you can't fool all the people, all the time."

Sorry Mr. Lincoln. Things are a little out of hand, any advise?

[Fintan]

Uh, so when do we get alcohol-free bars?