What are these "Bars" & "Restaurants" you speak of?................... they disappeared here in Ohio in like, 2020........... Covid, killed 'em............
Pipe Smoking in Bars/Restaurants
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New York Pipe Club’s normal meeting place is Soho Cigar Bar, just outside the Holland Tunnel.
Dining in is not an option currently, but smoking is.
Dining in is not an option currently, but smoking is.
Nowhere in the UK either. Smoking terraces only - which can be fairly posh - covered, sheltered, heated etc
Not sure about private members buildings but I don’t imagine they’d be exempt.
Not sure about private members buildings but I don’t imagine they’d be exempt.
I can't imagine how gross a smoking room in a hotel would be.
I'm much happier enjoying a meal without cigarette smoke blowing around. I'm old enough to remember these as well:
I'm much happier enjoying a meal without cigarette smoke blowing around. I'm old enough to remember these as well:
I would not patronize a restaurant that allowed smoking indoors and I would never stay in a smoking room at a hotel.
This. Vegas allows smoking indoors and at restaurants/bars, but I’m sure some restaurants don’t want you smoking in them.
I was just at a Motel 6 here in California and they have smoking/non-smoking rooms.
Being younger than most on here, and born and raised in California, I don’t remember how it “used to be.” Bars here allow smoking in their outdoor sections, and at least one bar I used to go to has an “outdoor” area that is basically indoors with open windows on the top, so you can smoke inside the bar. Our pipe club here in Los Angeles County met at a bar/restaurant that allows pipe smoking on their dining patio. The barbershop I used to go to in Orange County allowed smoking during your haircut and didn’t allow women inside.
If there is not a law prohibiting it, all of the Longhorn Steak Houses that I've been to allow smoking.
Here, almost all Ma and Pa places allow you to smoke. They don't seem to care for cigars or big billowy clouds of smoke, so keep it in a breathsmoking mode if you can.
Here, almost all Ma and Pa places allow you to smoke. They don't seem to care for cigars or big billowy clouds of smoke, so keep it in a breathsmoking mode if you can.
Not aware of any bars or restaurants that allow smoking indoors. Maybe I’m a hypocrite, but I would be pissed if I’m out enjoying a nice meal with my family and the table next to me lights up a pipe or cigar.
Bars are a different story. Though it’s nice to not come home reeking of smoke, I think bars are places for adults and should have the choice to allow smoking if they choose. In 2021 most probably wouldn’t anyway, but it should be their choice.
Bars are a different story. Though it’s nice to not come home reeking of smoke, I think bars are places for adults and should have the choice to allow smoking if they choose. In 2021 most probably wouldn’t anyway, but it should be their choice.
I find most places here will let me smoke my pipe. Starbucks, and many other chain places... I just ask politely, and try to make as little smoke as possible, and if I see that it bothers someone, I throw my coffee in their face and yell at them... I mean, I get up and move. 
But, seriously, when I see a sign with a cigarette and a line through it, I will ask if that means pipes? It helps to have puppy dog eyes. And, I can't recall ever getting told no. If there is outdoor seating, I would never ask to smoke inside.
Just be polite! And, even I would bawk at someone setting at a table making big stupid newbie clouds of smoke. I would even get up and leave in a smokers lounge if an idiot sat next to me and did that.
But, seriously, when I see a sign with a cigarette and a line through it, I will ask if that means pipes? It helps to have puppy dog eyes. And, I can't recall ever getting told no. If there is outdoor seating, I would never ask to smoke inside.
Just be polite! And, even I would bawk at someone setting at a table making big stupid newbie clouds of smoke. I would even get up and leave in a smokers lounge if an idiot sat next to me and did that.
Lots of places with outdoor dining in Florida allow it. Goose's Sports Bar (a dive in the best sense of the word) in Largo allows it indoors as well.
It's almost a shame it's gone, although I was and still am very supportive of smoking being banned indoors. I like a smoke with a drink, but hate any smoke - including my own - near food.
I'd avoid smoking strong stuff near other people, even outdoors. I don't want to be the obnoxious prick who stinks the place up. Some DFK and English blends just reek when you get them as second-hand smoke (like, going out of your smoking room and coming back in after 5-10 minutes), cigars reek, even cigarettes stink. The old adage of aromatics being for others' pleasure and stinky stuff being for our pleasure rings true! My wife won't let me smoke anything other than VaPers at home, especially not Latakia, and I get it, they taste amazing but to other people they stink!
Oh, and when I smoked cigarettes I always insisted on a non-smoking room in hotels - in Greece in the summer it was basically impossible to find any such room unless we're talking of proper and expensive hotels - and never smoked in my own hotel rooms either, always in the balcony (if there was one) or outside, you'd often see my in pyjamas in the morning, with a coffee mug at hand puffing away next to the door
I'd avoid smoking strong stuff near other people, even outdoors. I don't want to be the obnoxious prick who stinks the place up. Some DFK and English blends just reek when you get them as second-hand smoke (like, going out of your smoking room and coming back in after 5-10 minutes), cigars reek, even cigarettes stink. The old adage of aromatics being for others' pleasure and stinky stuff being for our pleasure rings true! My wife won't let me smoke anything other than VaPers at home, especially not Latakia, and I get it, they taste amazing but to other people they stink!
Oh, and when I smoked cigarettes I always insisted on a non-smoking room in hotels - in Greece in the summer it was basically impossible to find any such room unless we're talking of proper and expensive hotels - and never smoked in my own hotel rooms either, always in the balcony (if there was one) or outside, you'd often see my in pyjamas in the morning, with a coffee mug at hand puffing away next to the door
Especially in Montgomery County! Most public places or places of business you can't even smoke outside anymore! They make you go to some far off corner of the parking lot like you're in "time out" or something...
I'd never think of smoking in a restaurant. I don't know one that is smoking permissive. With fine dining, I think that is necessary. One table's cigar might not go with another table's entrees. You're paying to savor your food, not someone else's tobacco. When I heard Irish pubs had forbidden smoking, that served as the end of that historical epoch for the world, for me. Mind you, I live in the heart of the tobacco belt.
Fortunately we also have pubs with large gardens where you can smoke without interfering with the table next to you.
Absolutely. Got to love a decent pub garden indeed. Especially when the weather suits.
If my memory serves me well, Ohio was one of the first States to go to a State wide smoking ban. Well over 10 years ago.Yep, I'm in Ohio also and see the same...
We did once (a smoking hotel room) because I thought it would be cool to smoke my pipe in there. The room was absolutely horrible and smelled terrible. I can see why most places do not allow smoking.
It was 2005 or 2006 when the ban was passed, because I was just old enough to legally buy smokes for the last year my buddies and I could go to Denny’s at 2am and chainsmoke inside. I couldn’t imagine it now, nine asshole kids all smoking liking chimneys and chugging coffee. You can still find smoking hotel rooms in Ohio, but it’s chain dependent as some chains are completely smoke free no matter what.