Smoking aside. If this bar/restaurant is closing after only one month of the new smoking ban then it was getting ready to close soon anyway.
I was just there in August passing through. The steakhouse I stopped in for dinner wasn’t very busy and the bartender said that since the oil took a dive; all the eateries in town were slow.
This is much more than just a smoking ban issue.
It doesn’t take much to break the bank.
Good observation. The smoking ban was likely the final nail.