Cigarette Smoking in Cigar Bars?
Monday April 2, 2007
It may be time to separate the bulls from the calves. We have all been hearing a lot about smoking bans lately, which in this day and age, are primarily aimed at cigarette smokers. Cigars have always been banned indoors at many public places, and not just to prevent annoyances to nonsmokers, since a good number of cigarette smokers do not like cigar smoke, either. However, current campaigns to ban cigarette smoking in public is causing additional collateral damage to cigar smokers, even to the point of threatening the very existence of cigar bars that were established specifically to segregate (and banish) cigar smokers from the rest of the population. Now, as the result of all those new smoking bans, cigarette smokers are searching for places to smoke indoors. All of a sudden, cigar smoke doesn't seem to bother a lot of cigarette smokers anymore. This brings us to the six million dollar question:
Comments
I think all smokers should be welcome, but my concern would be that the crowd of cigarette smokers would not appreciate the atmosphere the way cigar smokers do.
I think that cigar bars should be for cigar and pipe smokers, only. Cigar smokers enjoy smoking as a pastime, and for the most part, are not addicts. On the other hand, cigarette smokers are a different kind of animal.
Funny. I seem to remember being told on many occasions that I couldn’t smoke a cigar where cigarette smoking was permitted.
Colorado is right in the middle of the very thing you’re talking about. There’s a complete ban with the exception of casinos and cigar bars. Legislation to close the loophole is in the works. I’m thinking about something regarding babies and bathwater. -JJ
I think its not the smoker of cigarettes but the cigarette itself. If the cigarette was all natural instead of about 60% reclaimed (old stale tobacco and twigs) and rehyrdrated(dried out leaves and stems twigs soaked in chemicals the sprayed on Paper shreaded and added to new cigarettes)
I’m a cigarette smoker, but don’t have a problem with cigars (my father smoked them). I will have to agree that cigar bars should be primarily for cigar smokers for several reasons, some to do with the majority of cigarette smokers. I also agree with Cigar Jack when he comments that most cigarette smokers wouldn’t appreciate the atmosphere. As to cigar smoking being a past time, I know many cigar smokers that chain smoke cigars just like many people do cigarettes, and I’m not talking about cheap cigars either.
If a cigarette smoker wants to come into a cigar bar they should be welcome, as long as they don’t complain about the atmosphere – there are a few of us who have a bit of sophistication. It reminds me of a story told by a friend of mine who frequents a cigar bar in Dallas that serves food. A couple came in for the excellent steaks. The lady noticed the group at the next table were lighting cigars and went to complain. The owner told the cook “this lady wants her food to go”.
i think a little generosity might prevail – sure, let them in providing they dont displace genuine cigar smokers and they understand they are entering our turf.they might also be a useful source of additional revenue for these establishments.