So I realize that for a blog that’s supposed to be dedicated to cigar bars and cigar friendly spots around the world, the posts have been very Michigan-focused recently.  For everyone that’s coming here for cigar bar info in other places, I apologize.
There have been a lot of newsworthy incidents leading up to the May [...]

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Since the Michigan Smoking Ban was announced last year, there have been a lot of articles written about Robusto’s Martini Lounge in Grosse Pointe, and its exemption from the ban.  Even the lounge’s own website states that they’re exempt from the ban and that they’ll allow cigar smoking after May 1st.

Yesterday (April 22nd), I shot [...]

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Leave it to Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson to try to keep the party going for cigar smokers in Oakland County Michigan.
Early this morning Kathleen Gray of the Detroit Free Press reported that Brooks (@brookspatterson) was planning on filing suit against the State of Michigan over the state-wide smoking ban that will go into [...]

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If you asked most people to describe an open-air dive bar in a beach town, they’d probably come pretty close to describing the Smokin’ Oyster Brewery (S.O.B.) in Fort Myers Beach, Florida.
Complete with surf boards hanging from the wall and a guy playing the acoustic guitar, this place is plucked straight out of one of [...]

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As if we need another reason to love Florida.  Palm trees, warm sunny weather, beautiful beaches, and a place where cigar friendly places are opening instead of closing.  With all of the cigar bars around the country fighting to stay open, we’re happy to hear about a new one springing up.
Earlier this week the South [...]

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Chris on March 7th, 2010

If you have first-hand knowledge of how this law is affecting a cigar-friendly location in Michigan, please comment and tell us what you know!
A long-standing fear of mine is going to come true on May 1st, 2010 in Michigan. The smoking ban that was signed into law in December of last year will have [...]

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