Bars and other businesses were added to a restaurant smoking ban at the last minute, resulting in a broad city ordinance for Chesnee, South Carolina. The city council’s vote was unanimous and is the first of its kind in Spartanburg County. The measure makes it “illegal for people to use any tobacco products, including cigarettes, [...]
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Mayor Julian Castro, of San Antonio, Texas, is seeking to close exemptions o the city’s existing smoking ban. San Antonio is already 97 percent smoke-free, and according to the latest CRA Action Alert, “restaurants with enclosed smoking sections and separate ventilation, bars, pool and bingo halls and comedy clubs are exempt.”
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The Columbia, South Carolina City Council is revisiting the city’s smoking ban. The newly elected council has to decide whether The Tobacco Merchant is covered by it. The establishment was considered a bar by the city, because it sells beer and wine, as well as its core tobacco products, but The Tobacco Merchant doesn’t see [...]
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The number of Iowa businesses seeking cigar and other tobacco permits has plunged in Iowa, according to the Iowa Department of Public Health’s Tobacco Use Prevention and Control division. From 5,500 retail permits in the state in 2003 and 2004, the tobacco tax and smoking ban pushed the number down by approximately a third.
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Apparently, hookah smoking is not nearly as loathsome as cigar or cigarette smoking … at least not in Utah. The Utah County Board of Health has put off a decision on whether hookahs should be banned, citing that it wants more information. In a rare showing of legal constraint in battle of tobacco, Chris Sorensen, [...]
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About a month ago, Tom wrote a great Post-Tax Guide for Tobacconist and Cigar Manufacturers. The U.S.A. is not the only place that is feeling the brunt of high taxes and tobacco bans (i.e. Canada, the UK, and elsewhere). The UK’s situation, with their draconian anti-smoking laws enacted in 2007, is particularly interesting. The UK laws prevented smoking in any [...]
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If you live in Savannah, Georgia and want to protect your rights – all of them – you need to make sure your voice is heard. The city’s proposed anti-smoking measure would include nearly all workplaces, including cigar shops, according to the International Premium Cigar & Pipe Retailers Association, and such a broad measure could [...]
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The proposed Savannah, Georgia smoking policy clearly lacks common sense. Well, all smoking bans do – it’s far better to let a business choose whether to allow smoking – but the situation in Forrest Gump’s town is particularly menacing. Mayor Otis Johnson wants to ban smoking in bars and restaurants … and cigar smokers are [...]
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It’s a shocking thought, right? Most people who are anti-smoking seem to be singularly focused on taking our rights away from us. Since they don’t like smoking, the thinking goes, we shouldn’t be allowed to do it. Fortunately, there are people out there who are a bit more open-minded. Take Ralph Gardner, Jr., of the [...]
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It looks like you won’t be buying one cigar at a time in Prince George’s County. A circuit court judge there ruled last month that a law forcing stores to sell cigars in packs of five is constitutional. The law was passed in 2008 and amended in 2009. According to Judge Sean D. Wallace, the [...]
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