Lawmakers won't clarify cigar bar exemption this year

Publication Date: 2007-03-20

• Publication:examiner.com

State lawmakers won't clarify which bars will be exempt from the statewide smoking ban this year.

On Tuesday, Sen. Betty Boyd, D-Lakewood, asked a Senate committee to kill the proposal (House Bill 1108) because there wasn't enough time left in the session to work out all the issues.

Cigar bars, along with casinos and the smoking lounge at Denver International Airport, were exempt from the ban which took effect last summer. Some bars which sold a lot of cigarettes before the law took effect argued they qualified as cigar bars.