Just out of curiosity,, but can anyone here still smoke in bars in your state??
Didn’t know if this is the whole United States thing or if there are exceptions.

Popped into my head as I was heading home from work and saw a bunch of people outside the bar smoking.
I smoked my last cigarette in 2009.. one of the best decisions I ever made.
I was a very heavy smoker,,, 3 packs a day, unfiltered.
I knew I was headed down a very bad road and I got my mind right and by gosh , I beat the nicotine demon.

Nope.

In Pa, a bar can permit smoking if food sales account for less than 20% of its gross sales. Private clubs, like the Moose, Legion, and VFW can allow smoking, if the membership approves.

Bars no, casinos, yes. Even the non-injun ones.

In Ohio it's illegal to smoke or vape in any workplace, within 25' of an entrance, near an air intake and near a few other objects. People still do, but not very much. In public, you're more likely to smell marijuana than tobacco.

I am glad you can't smoke at bars and restaurants anymore. I've had meals ruined in the past by heavy smokers seated nearby.

Keith

You can in MS although not all bars do.

The international rules for the Moose changed a few years ago. They do not allow smoking. An individual lodge can apply for an exemption, but it is rarely given.

Our legion voted 2 years ago to not allow smoking. Their sales dropped dramatically and they brought it back.

We do have one "non club" bar in town that allows smoking. I'm not sure how they get around the food sales thing. I'm guessing creative book keeping.

… shoot we still got smoking areas in cafes in places here

I will tell you guys a funny but true story.
I was hospitalized for kidney stones and the hospital was smoke free,,, I was needing a smoke in the worst way,,,
So I grabbed a cigarette and went into the bathroom with the vent on,,, figured the cigarette smoke would go on out and I’d use the industrial spray in the bathroom to mask it… wellllllll, that didn’t work out. And the nurse who caught me DID indeed have a mustache,,, wasn’t a dude..
I never did get the pretty nurses when I was in the hospital.

When the ban started here a lot of bars went under. I have no idea if some places have any exemption sice I dont frequent bars. Place i used to go on Saturdays to dance went under. Dont think there is a good place possible within at least 46 mins of the farm if there is one at all. Wife would like a nice place to go dancing now and then if I could find one. Even if I did I don't believe I could.

Last I knew you could here, but quite a few bars are nonsmoking.

not legally

some bars do anyway want to smoke drop a dollar in the jar for the next fine it is a 100 dollar fine for the bar not making a reasonable attempt to keep people from smoking.
reasonable is debatable

some bars have smoking huts outside

it is a minority of bars that "allow" indoor smoking.

Not here, nothing inside anywhere, outside not within 25 or 50 feet of an entrance,I don't remember which, and the no smoke nazis give even them a hard time...what I've seen is people go to their cars to smoke on breaks.

When NYS banned smoking indoors my barber banned it in his barber shop and his business dramatically increased.

There is a reason for that.

In Spokane Washington I saw booths outdoors where smokers could go in to smoke. Makes no sense but it is Washington.
Casper Wyoming had a restaurant with a smoking section and nonsmoking section but no wall separating them. Silly.

Michigan bars are smoke free.

I was in an American Legion bar in the UP last winter and they still allowed it. Caught me off guard when I walked in

A lot of bars and restaurants complained but when it all shook out, I think their business actually went up.

Around here bars are a dying thing. Younger generations don't socialize in public, let alone drink or smoke. If they do its those stupid vape things.

There's only a handful of bars in town that are open past midnight. Majority do last call at 10 or earlier.

I believe smoking on bars is what kept me from becoming a bar fly. I never have been a smoker, and didn't like smelling like that after a night out.
Now that there's no smoking in bars, I find myself spending more time in them.

While that may be true of restaurants, I certainly don't believe that is true of bars. I lived in IL when the no-smoking thing passed there. Before that we went to the bar at least once a week if not twice. I remember the first summer after it passed, you'd go there and there would be 20 people on the back porch where you could smoke and 2-3 inside. I have zero desire to go somewhere to drink that I can't smoke at the same time, but we stopped in one day in winter.... I think we were looking for someone. When on a normal winter evening there would have been 15-20 folks there.... there were only 4... soon after that the owners sold the place. I have no idea if it's still open today or not.

Is it that most people that drink also smoke, and people that don’t drink also generally don’t smoke?

I think it is, or was, that a lot of people smoke when they drink. Smokers tend to smoke more when they drink and many people who don't smoke on regular basis like to have a smoke when they are drinking.

Also, people tend to spend more time at a bar than at a restaurant, thus people that have a smoke every hour or half hour will have one right before they go into a restaurant, and once they are finished eating they will leave and have another one. When they go to a bar, if they have to leave the building to have a smoke, they are likely to go ahead and just leave, whereas if they can sit at the bar and smoke, they are more likely to just light up and order another drink.