Smoking ban
NYC bar owners are still finding loopholes in Bloomberg's no-smoking laws. Ventilated smoking chambers and illegal smoke-easies are being considered, and several bartenders plan to ignore it altogether. One club plans to charge smokers five dollars each, raffle off half the total, and use the other half to pay the fine, should the law be enforced.
As city tobacco ban looms, tavern owners get sly [NYT]