Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that authorizes smoking in cigar lounges in the state.

Highlights:

• Authorizes smoking in bars and cigar lounge “lounge, which has a valid certificate issued by the tax commissioner under this subdivision; has a humidor on the premises; is enclosed by solid walls or windows, a ceiling, and a solid door; and is equipped with a ventilation system by which exhausted air is not recirculated to nonsmoking areas and smoke is not backstreamed into nonsmoking areas” (Page 2).

• Defines “cigar lounge” as “a business dedicated, in whole or in part, to the smoking of cigars which generates twenty percent or more of the business's annual gross income from the sale of cigars” (Page 3).

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