Smoking Ban

DIY cigarettes? Some smokers grow tobacco

lauren.king — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:15:34 -0400

By Steve Szkotak RICHMOND Something unusual is cropping up alongside the tomatoes, eggplant and okra in Scott Byars' vegetable garden — the elephantine leaves of 30 tobacco plants.

N.C. lawmakers approve smoking ban in bars, restaurants

Patrick.Wilson — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:10:16 -0400

By Emery P. Dalesio RALEIGH, N.C. North Carolina legislators on Wednesday put further distance between a past steeped in tobacco and a present focused on health care and research enterprises by approving a ban on smoking in restaurants and bars.

N.C. smoking ban debate delayed on Senate floor

lauren.king — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:36:45 -0400

RALEIGH, N.C. The North Carolina Senate has put off debate on a bill that would ban smoking at most work sites, restaurants and public places because some Democrats aren't sold on the idea.

Taxes hit smokers financially … but is it enough to quit?

Cindy.Clayton — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 10:39:39 -0400

For Clee Garrard, smoking helps relieve the tension from his job at the state prison in Sussex County. A new federal tax on cigarettes, however, is putting extra stress on his wallet. The pack of Newports he buys every other day now costs him 62 cents more. The federal tax on cigarettes jumped almost 160 percent Wednesday – and it wasn’t an April Fools’ Day joke.

Gov. Kaine signs smoking ban bill in Virginia Beach

Cindy.Clayton — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:37:34 -0400

VIRGINIA BEACH Gov. Timothy M. Kaine signed legislation Monday that bans smoking in bars and restaurants in Virginia, a state that first traded in tobacco nearly four centuries ago.

For bowling alleys and pool halls, smoking bill is cloudy

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 22:02:12 -0500

VIRGINIA BEACH Candy Mitchum runs Pinboys at the Beach on Laskin Road. The bowling center offers beer and snack-bar foods like burgers, hot dogs, fries, sandwiches. "You wouldn't, I think, come in and order dinner," Mitchum says, "unless you were bowling."

N.C. House committee debates workplace smoking ban

Mark.Edelen — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:12:14 -0500

By EMERY P. DALESIO RALEIGH, N.C. North Carolina legislators have begun debating a ban on workplace smoking across a state that is still the country's largest tobacco producer.

Terms of Virginia's restaurant smoking ban

Mark.Edelen — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:31:11 -0500

Applies to general areas inside restaurants and bars, including restrooms, except in designated rooms. SMOKING PERMITTED - In rooms segregated from the nonsmoking area of the restaurant and ventilated separately so that cigarette smoke can't mingle with air outside the designated smoking zones.

Discussion: Virginia snuffs out smoking in restaurants

cubecandy — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:51:42 -0500

Virginia, whose economy relied on tobacco for almost four centuries, will ban smoking in most restaurants and bars. Come December, it will be illegal to light up inside eateries unless they have an enclosed room with independent ventilation. Also allowed: smoking on open-air outdoor patios and at private clubs.

Where patrons puff, some see smoking ban as a drag

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:39:48 -0500

VIRGINIA BEACH If you got 'em, better smoke 'em now. That's what Willie Stewart and Michael Henry were doing Thursday afternoon when they heard the General Assembly had passed a ban on smoking in bars and restaurants. They were in a bar, smoking.