Public Cigar Rooms

[NullSmurf]

I've been around the block a time or two, but am just beginning to explore the pleasure of cigar smoking. My state legislature has on its plate this session a bill to ban smoking in public places.

I'm searching my memory and do not recall any places other than a few, rare cigar bars where cigar smoking is permitted. If this bill is passed as it is sure to pass (some content deleted in defference to the board rules concerning politics)we'll be denied in even these few venues.

How do those of you in those (more political content withheld) states banning public smoking deal with it? Do you only smoke in relative privacy?

 

[CoventryCat86]

I live in the liberal POS state of Connecticut where they passed a smoking ban two years ago.

I smoke in my house and in my car. I never really smoked cigars in restaurants or bars in the first place so it didn't really affect me anyway but I still think the law is ridiculous even though I despise cigarette smoke.

Fortunately, the smoking ban does not apply to sovereign nations like the two huge casinos we have here. They ban smoking in certain bars and restaurants there but for the most part you can smoke in the casinos.

 

[BlindedByScience]

The state of Washington just passed one of if not the most restrictive smoking ban in the country. Thank god I can still smoke at home..... :whistling:

....or, if the mood strikes, I can do what lots of people in southwest Washington do...drive to Oregon. A couple of the B&M's in Portland, OR (across the river from my home town of Vancouver, WA) have nice cigar rooms, and at least one has a lounge where you can have a pint and a cigar. Been to this one a couple of times and enjoyed it.

I actualy prefer to smoke at home where I can put my feet up and really enjoy the down time.... :thumbs:

Regards - B.B.S.

 

[Devil Doc]

I live in the liberal POS state of Connecticut where they passed a smoking ban two years ago.

I smoke in my house and in my car. I never really smoked cigars in restaurants or bars in the first place so it didn't really affect me anyway but I still think the law is ridiculous even though I despise cigarette smoke.

Fortunately, the smoking ban does not apply to sovereign nations like the two huge casinos we have here. They ban smoking in certain bars and restaurants there but for the most part you can smoke in the casinos.

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Well Cat, I live in the conservative state of NH, and a conservative Republican is introdoucing a no smoking ban bill in our very conservative legislature. It looks like it will pass.

Doc.

 

[MichiganM]

These smoking bans are spreading like wildfire. As much as I hate cigarettes I love my precious cigars. It's a shame. I can't even smoke in my own apartment due to a certain attitude people have towards smokers in general. I feel that smoking a cigar is in a totally different realm than cigarettes but I know many, many people would disagree. To answer your original question I don't smoke in smoking rooms as it currently stands, but I think for me personally that will change very soon as I have nowhere else to smoke. There is a nice shop up the road with a great lounge...if I have to buy cigars on the spot to smoke there then so be it...at least I'll get to try a bunch of different smokes at the unfortunate sacrifice of mark-up.

Jason

 

[half full monty]

Gotta love NC when it comes to tobacco.....

 

[wshell]

Gotta love NC when it comes to tobacco.....

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...couldn't have said it any better myself

 

[KayakinBoy]

I live in the liberal POS state of Connecticut

Move! :sign: :laugh:

I got some John Kerry stuff left over, ya want it? :whistling: :sign:

 

[N8NOE]

I Also Live in Michigan, But even if it passes, I'm going to Smoke. I DO smoke Cigarettes along with my Cigars, but I'm "Defiant" and have been told this. I also have my Texas License in my pocket, so let them Mail me the ticket... I'll call it passive resistance, and maybe stand outside the door to the place (and Up-Wind) to fire up?.. Let EVERYONE walk by me to enter?.. A few local places here to smoke a Cigar, Pipe, Etc. but getting fewer all the time!.. Casinos are big, but didn't think of the Sov.Nation thing?.. But I'm only a few miles from Cubans on the other side of the River..

 

[Rob_k]

I never really smoked cigars in restaurants or bars in the first place so it didn't really affect me anyway but I still think the law is ridiculous even though I despise cigarette smoke.

Fortunately, the smoking ban does not apply to sovereign nations like the two huge casinos we have here. They ban smoking in certain bars and restaurants there but for the most part you can smoke in the casinos.

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agreed Bill, i never smoked in restautants or bars either (even when i smoked butts). I do smoke a cigar when i go to the casino's Bill refers to, and here in RI there are a few cigar bars around.
I do frequent my local b&m, which has a nice lounge to light up and enjoy some adult beverages.

 

[Ralph]

I live in the liberal POS state of Connecticut where they passed a smoking ban two years ago.

I smoke in my house and in my car. I never really smoked cigars in restaurants or bars in the first place so it didn't really affect me anyway but I still think the law is ridiculous even though I despise cigarette smoke.

Fortunately, the smoking ban does not apply to sovereign nations like the two huge casinos we have here. They ban smoking in certain bars and restaurants there but for the most part you can smoke in the casinos.

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I live in the same Communist state as the Cat. I never used to go to a bar with the intent of smoking a cigar, but if I made plans to get together with friends at a bar, I always brought some sticks.

Other than the casions, I can think of one shop in Hartford where you can smoke and one in South Norwalk and only that one has a bar license.

Time to join a club, or better yet invent one!

 

[Devil Doc]

The smoking ban issue no longer is a liberal or conservative issue. Everyone is jumping on the bandwagon. Let's face it, there's more of them than there are of us.

Doc.

 

[Rob_k]

The smoking ban issue no longer is a liberal or conservative issue. Everyone is jumping on the bandwagon. Let's face it, there's more of them than there are of us.

Doc.

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fortunatly, cigar smokers are a little under the "media's" radar when it comes to this. i very rarely hear in a news report, they are targeting cigar smokers, it is usually the cigarette smokers who take the brunt of it.
i have actually been complemented by non-cigar smokers how pleasant some of my cigars smell.

 

[lucasbuck]

They're trying like hell to pass a ban on smoking in all public places here in Utah. Last year the proposal was narrowly defeated before it went to vote but they're at it again this year. I fear it's only a matter of time. I do the vast majority of my smoking in pubs and clubs so I'm anxious to say the least.

What really pisses me off is there is no dearth of non smoking clubs around here. To each his own. Let us live!

 

[Gunpowder]

Our County Commisioners just voted down a push from the local health Dept.to totally outlaw in all public areas. Private clubs would have been exempted but not bars. I just joined one Yesterday.

Whereas the county north that includes South Bend (Indiana) just passed one. I believe they exempted bars.

 

[JHawk]

I was at a jazz club in KC tonight and could have had a cigarette -- but NOT a cigar. Do any locals know of bars/lounges that allow cigars??

 

[The Master]

Rob K,there is a great cigar lounge in East Greenwich at Regency Cigar Emporium. I hung out there for years until I moved to Florida. Here in Florida they passed a non smoking law.You can still smoke in bars and at restaurants that have out door seating. I normally smoke out on my lanai and since I am in Florida I can do it all year long.

 

[NullSmurf]

on my 'lanai', its snow covered and about 18 degrees.

 

[CoventryCat86]

The smoking ban issue no longer is a liberal or conservative issue. Everyone is jumping on the bandwagon. Let's face it, there's more of them than there are of us.

Doc.

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I kinda disagree on that one. The most liberal states in the nation (like Connecticut) were the first to pass the bans. The people pushing this crap are finding resistance in more moderate to conservative states like Indiana. Less liberal states pass less restrictive smoking bans or leave it up to municipal governments to decide how they want to deal with it. In Connecticut, almost all of the legislators who voted in favor of the ban were Democrats and almost all of the ones who did NOT want the ban were Republicans. The lobbying groups that are working to promote the bans are the typical left wing do gooders that are constantly pushing the agenda of the left.

Not "everyone" is jumping on the band wagon, there are still quite a few people out there who don't think the government has any right to tell businesses what they can or cannot allow in their establishments and they are not necessarily smokers themselves.

 

[Devil Doc]

You're right, I shouldn't use the word everybody, when I really mean people you would't expect are jumping on the band wagon. The conservative legislator I spoke of in a previous post in this thread comes to mind. She claims to have 94% support for a ban. Although I'm not sure how restictive. We'll see how it shakes out.

Doc.