KLMCedric From Belgium, joined Dec 2003, 727 posts, RR: 29 Posted (3 years 3 months 2 weeks 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 838 times:
I just got back from a long layover in Washington D.C.
I, as a smoker, was pleasantly surprised that you could still smoke in bars and
restaurants.
In California on the other hand , I feel almost like a criminal for being a smoker.
So I was wondering, is the D.C. area the last place in the states where smoking hasn't been banned from all public places???
Sprout5199 From United States, joined Feb 2005, 1428 posts, RR: 1 Reply 1, posted (3 years 3 months 2 weeks 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 838 times:
In Florida, you cant smoke in any restaurants but if the bars makes less that 10% on food you can smoke. Hard to have a beer and not smoke like a factory.
ORFflyer From United States, joined Apr 2005, 3293 posts, RR: 15 Reply 3, posted (3 years 3 months 2 weeks 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 821 times:
In Virginia, you can still smoke in bars and resturants, no laws preventing it. However, a lot of resturants are eliminating their smoking sections, as the need for them is dwindling fast.
For the record. - I'm a smoker.
For the record #2 - Bars technically don't exist in Virginia. The Virginia Alcohol Beverage control board doesn't allow "bars" They all have to be Joe Blows "Resturant and Bar" or "Grill and Bar" Bar cannot be the first name. (Bar & Grill)
Travelin man From United States, joined Mar 2000, 2994 posts, RR: 1 Reply 4, posted (3 years 3 months 2 weeks 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 813 times:
Quoting KLMCedric (Thread starter): In California on the other hand , I feel almost like a criminal for being a smoker.
I occassionally smoke, but as a California resident, I am quite happy with the ban on smoking indoors. You can go out and your clothes don't totally stink of cigarette smoke when you get home.
Apparently it's also really reduced the amount of people who smoke here, which is fine by me.
SlamClick From United States, joined Nov 2003, 9996 posts, RR: 79 Reply 6, posted (3 years 3 months 2 weeks 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 798 times:
Quoting KLMCedric (Thread starter): In California on the other hand , I feel almost like a criminal for being a smoker.
Really ironic since more than half the cigarettes I've seen in the past ten years were in (Hollywood California) movies. Can you say 'product placement' boys and girls?
Quoting ORFflyer (Reply 3): However, a lot of resturants are eliminating their smoking sections
I came to believe that along the easter seaboard, 'non smoking' section meant that there was no ashtray on YOUR side of the table.
Here in Reno I rarely ever go to a casino but they seem to be pretty smoker-friendly, including the casino bars. Havn't been in a Las Vegas casino in fifteen years but I assume it is about the same.
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EWRCabincrew From Canada, joined May 2006, 5347 posts, RR: 60 Reply 8, posted (3 years 3 months 2 weeks 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 792 times:
Depends on the municipality/city/town in the individual state as well. AZ as a state is smoking, however, there are a few cities with smoking ordinances.
KLMCedric From Belgium, joined Dec 2003, 727 posts, RR: 29 Reply 10, posted (3 years 3 months 2 weeks 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 776 times:
I'm pretty much amazed by these replies, I was under the impression that by now the U.S. was practically a smokefree country. But that might have to do that I mostly stay in either LA or NYC.
Gilligan From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 11, posted (3 years 3 months 2 weeks 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 768 times:
You can still smoke in bars and ice houses in Texas. Restaurants almost all have a smoking section. We were out the other day and watched a woman get upset because she thought that it was disgraceful that the smokers had a better view than the non smokers! Heavens to Betsy!!! She let the manager have it. I kept waiting for her to pull out a pouch of redman and stick a wad in her mouth!
5T6 From United States, joined Dec 2003, 283 posts, RR: 0 Reply 12, posted (3 years 3 months 2 weeks 1 day 3 hours ago) and read 753 times:
Quoting Gilligan (Reply 11): You can still smoke in bars and ice houses in Texas
Not in El Paso! Ban on smoking in bars has been in effect for about three years now. Most bars have outdoor patios for puffing. I thought I read that Austin was cosidering a similar law.
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Travelin man From United States, joined Mar 2000, 2994 posts, RR: 1 Reply 15, posted (3 years 3 months 2 weeks 1 day ago) and read 724 times:
Quoting KLMCedric (Reply 10): I'm pretty much amazed by these replies, I was under the impression that by now the U.S. was practically a smokefree country. But that might have to do that I mostly stay in either LA or NYC.
Go to Las Vegas. You can pretty much smoke anywhere.
FlyingTexan From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 16, posted (3 years 3 months 2 weeks 22 hours ago) and read 707 times:
Local municipalities govern smoking laws in TX.
Quoting Gilligan (Reply 11): We were out the other day and watched a woman get upset because she thought that it was disgraceful that the smokers had a better view than the non smokers! Heavens to Betsy!!! She let the manager have it. I kept waiting for her to pull out a pouch of redman and stick a wad in her mouth!
Quoting Travelin man (Reply 15): Go to Las Vegas. You can pretty much smoke anywhere.
Even in supermarkets/drug stores/convenience stores where the viedo poker machines are. This may be outlawed in the near future (in some places). It will never be banned in casinos. Ever.
CastleIsland From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 18, posted (3 years 3 months 2 weeks 21 hours ago) and read 699 times:
Just played a gig last weekend in New Hampshire, and smoking is still allowed there in restaurants/clubs. It's been eliminated in Massachusetts for about three years now, and I have no problem going outside to do so. I even did in NH - part force of habit, part courtesy.
Falstaff From United States, joined Jun 2006, 3674 posts, RR: 27 Reply 20, posted (3 years 3 months 2 weeks 21 hours ago) and read 689 times:
You can still smoke in bars and restaurants in the Detroit area. All of the bars I go to in St. Louis you can smoke in too. I was just in STL and I always get a kick out of the little smokers "aquariums" they have in the airport. I have a friend who routes all of his flights through STL, just so he can smoke there. He has gone way out of his way and spent extra money to stop at STL. He smokes Terrytons too, I guess he'd rather fight than switch. I don't smoke, but I think it is BS that in some places you can't smoke in bars. Beer (my favorite) and booze is not exactly good for you either.
LTBEWR From United States, joined Jan 2004, 9357 posts, RR: 7 Reply 21, posted (3 years 3 months 2 weeks 19 hours ago) and read 674 times:
New York City, the entire states of New Jersey (since Apr. 15, 2006) and California for several years, are the biggest places in the USA where smoking is banned in almost every indoor building location except in a private home or a hotel/motel room (unless a non-smoking room). I do like that one cannot smoke in my workplace or in a bar. I don't like smelling like cigarette ash.
Elsewhere in the USA, there are numerous municipalites that limit smoking in the workplace and in bars or resturants or require segaration of smokers and non-smokers.
I am old enough to remember the days when one could smoke on an airline flight....
StrasserB From Singapore, joined Nov 2005, 1541 posts, RR: 12 Reply 25, posted (3 years 3 months 2 weeks 9 hours ago) and read 641 times:
Quoting Kmh1956 (Reply 7): Go to Greece....you're practically EXPECTED to smoke everywhere!!!
"Expected" doesn't describe the whole story:
It seems to be MANDATORY!!
I restarted smoking here and now I'm happy in Greece.
Still, even in the most arid desert is an airport somewhere ...
26 AerospaceFan: Although I'm basically a nonsmoker, there are plenty of places in Nevada where you can smoke. I don't think that the casinos there would have it any o
27 57AZ: Here in Tucson, city ordinances prohibit smoking in restaurants. Restaurants can gain exemptions to allow them to implement the requirements if they c
28 N1120A: Well, if you smoke indoors, you are . While Los Angeles and then California were the pioneers, the laws are not quite as strict as in other places.
29 ADXMatt: Houston is a non-smoking city (Inside the city limits) Except for Bars. (Restaurants if they comply with some special connfusing ventilation rules tha
30 OlegShv: I believe it depends on particular place. I've smoking and non-smoking restaurants in Ohio.
31 N1120A: That is usually company, not local, policy. Lots of chain restaurants have no smoking policies company-wide.
32 BCAInfoSys: The great state of Washington has enacted a ban on all public indoor smoking and within 25 feet of the entrance, a window, or an air vent. What a beau
33 AeroWesty: Cincinnati airport has a couple of large smoking rooms behind the central food court, complete with those "Have a light on us!" machines if the TSA ha
34 AerospaceFan: Doesn't make sense to me. They should allow those who want to smoke -- cigarettes, cigars, or whatever -- to have their own smoking lounges. Whatever
35 DeltaDC9: It is really mostly city by city. Here is the bad news for smokers though: When they do ban smoking in bars and restaurants, like they did here in Lex
36 EasternSon: Maybe further down south, but New Jersey just passed the no-smoking bill, New York a while ago and Mass about five years ago. I've been to NC a coupl
37 Ly001: in israel the law says that smoking in bars and resturants is not allowed. well, that's only the law because there is not even one bar in israel that
38 AerospaceFan: That's certainly as it should be, if not establishment by establishment. Sadly, here in California, it appears that freedom to decide whether to offe
39 N1120A: Last I checked, there was no such thing as freedom of choice to kill someone. First, California has one of the most lax smoking bans. One can smoke o
40 AerospaceFan: You cannot smoke in a bar in California, if I'm not mistaken. I'll have to check that, though. [EDIT: I just checked, and it appears that I am correc
41 Usnseallt82: Yup. And they can vary wildly from each one to another.
42 Searpqx: As Steve said, WA is non-smoking. Interestingly enough, the above argument was used in getting the rules in place, but we seem to be the exception. I
43 N1120A: Did you read my post? I would guess not since you failed to see that I wrote "OUTSIDE PATIO" The laws are for employees as much as for customers.
44 AerospaceFan: Quite right. Sorry about the error. Then have smoking employees in smoking lounges. By the way, no one is forced to work anywhere that has such loung
45 57AZ: UPDATE- Arizona will have two statewide initiatives on the ballot in November concerning smoking bans-Proposition 201 and 206. Proposition 201 will es
46 Itsjustme: I didn't realize how silly the "smoking or non-smoking?" question at a restaurant is until I moved to a non-smoking state. Unless things have changed
47 Georgetown: Just a head's up...no more smoking in bars in DC starting spring '07. I'm a nonsmoker, but I don't really have a problem with it - and I especially un
49 David L: Same here in Scotland. Bars where food is a major part of their business have been less affected but overall there's been a 10% decline in sales. I'v
50 DeltaDC9: Here in Lexington, the resturants and bars has plenty of time to get ready. They had outside patios, gazebos, and other covered structures in time fo
51 Itsjustme: Nothing at all, assuming such an area truly exists. But I have been to restaurants where the "non-smoking" and "smoking" areas are across an aisle fr
52 David L: Because some people get very upset if they even see someone smoking, regardless of whether or not the smoke is getting anywhere near them. The truth
53 Itsjustme: True, and I have been in the company of such people. I agree that seeing someone smoking is a turn off for me but not to the extent that I let it eff
54 David L: I'm confused. I thought you were saying the smoking sections were already separated by an aisle so why bother creating a completely separate area. Ar
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Even in supermarkets/drug stores/convenience stores where the viedo poker machines are. This may be outlawed in the near future (in some places). It will never be banned in casinos. Ever.
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