Smoking Banned in NYC Bars...

[+ Lucky]

At the Cock on Sunday night the bouncer went around telling smokers to take it outside after NYC imposed a no-smoking law recently. However, in the notorious backroom where the Sperm nights are held on Sundays, smoking was permitted and, instead of being the grope room, it was the smoking room. This was enough to make me wish that the ban didn't exist, or that the bouncer kick these people out front as well.

As for the other bars I went to, they were delicously smoke-free.

[+ deej]

Didn't they do this years ago? Or was that only restaurants?

 

When I lived there 10 years ago, we used to pick restaurants based on which ones ignored the ordnance. ;-)

[dick_nyc]

The law was that if the restaurant seated over 35 people it had to be smoke free or else it had to have a special exhaust device which made it almost smoke free or had to have an area where people could smoke that was separate from an area where people could not smoke. The weird part to me was that many restaurants had the smoking area right inside the door so if you didn't smoke you then had to walk through the smoking area to get to the area that was smoke-free. I don't often go into bars so I don't know what the laws are on that now.

[Guest Ant415]

Smoking in bars is to be expected, as it seems to go along with drinking so well. In CA smoke-free bars became law a few years ago. It makes a world of difference to spend an hour at a bar.

 

But, it REALLY sucks to eat out and have the next table's smoke cloud come and taint your meal. Second hand smoke makes a lovely flavor additive.

 

Good to hear some smokers, with their birth right of smoking, give restaurants a reason not to enforce smoking laws. Ideally, people would not smoke in prohibited places, and restaurant owners would not need to choose to enforce or not enforce laws that adults should obey.

[FrancoDiSantisxxx]

Homo Hai-ku

 

>the Cock

>notorious

>grope room

>enough

>out front

>delicously