As of last Wednesday, the usual cloud of smoke inside the Hideaway Bar has disappeared for good. The Miami Dolphins-loving, Andrew Spear artwork-covered dive bar – famed for its cheeseburgers and ...

Some local bar owners stung by the statewide smoking ban spent the past year adding outdoor versions of their bars to accommodate patrons who like to light up. The additions have helped to bring back ...

McStorlie’s Pub reopened last week as a smoking establishment after being smoke-free for less than a year. The reversal bucks the norm in Aspen, where most establishments are smoke-free. Although bars ...

Although called the indoor clean air act, some local bar owners are catching flak due to people smoking outside their establishments. Apparently, the law’s definition of indoors extends 25 feet from ...

LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Not so long ago Lafayette's downtown bar and restaurant scene was a smoke-filled affair. Over the years, as Lafayette enacted its smoking ban and customers became less tolerant of ...

DURANGO, Colo. (AP) ” Patrons at Orio’s Roadhouse can keep smoking indoors after a judge Tuesday ruled that the bar does not need an onsite humidor to qualify as a cigar bar, verifying a loophole that ...

Once the cigar smoke settles at Jake's Cigars & Spirits after last call Wednesday, patrons won't be able to light up there, at least in the near future. Jason "Hutch" Hutchison, general manager of the ...

Now that state lawmakers have reached a deal to prohibit smoking in virtually all workplaces -- including restaurants and taverns -- we wondered how local business operators would react to the ban, ...

In what has to rank as the longest case - 17 months- for a petty offense in El Paso County's history, bar owner Bruce Hicks was convicted by a jury Tuesday of violating the state's smoking ban. Hicks, ...

Almost two months after the city of Lufkin enacted a smoking ban in restaurants and bars, the owner of Lufkin bar Jim Ann’s said she has seen about a 30 percent decrease in business. Jim Ann Hankla, ...

SAN DIEGO (NEWS 8) – A downtown bar in San Diego is facing backlash after it promoted a party to celebrate Comic-Con attendees leaving San Diego after the convention ends. The Smoking Gun Bar in the ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. -- A controversial Olympia sports bar recently had its liquor license suspended for allowing patrons to smoke marijuana, but the bar's owner is defying the order -- and it's not the ...