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PA's law has nice big exemptions in it, though. I'm not a lawyer, but from what I've seen and what I remember off the top of my head:
A great exemption is that smoking is allowed in establishments that make 10% or less of their income from food (the 90% being alcohol). So, you can still smoke a big cigar, drink beer/liquor and eat a big plate of nachos or other bar food in PA bars if they're not food-focused, but rather alcohol-focused.
Another great exemption is that a restaurant can have a bar portion of itself, and as long as:
* the bar portion is separated from the main restaurant portion by an airtight partition (a full wall or a wall-to-ceiling divider, etc.)
* a weighted self-closing door is in the partition (so the door can't stay open more than momentarily and allow lots of air mixing)
* the bar portion has a separate door to the outside
* the bar portion has an entirely separate HVAC system from the main restaurant portion
.... then patrons can smoke in the bar portion, which can have an unlimited number of tables not just the actual bar and its stools, and waitresses can take orders from and deliver food to patrons there (at the bar or at the tables), and I'm talking orders from the entire restaurant menu, not just a "bar food" subset of items.
Most places made the partition transparent, implemented the other rules, and the overall effect is you can smoke in these restaurants just like in the old days before the law existed.
Walk in, select a table in the designated bar area (a.k.a. the "smoking section" effectively), tell the waitress what you want to eat, then when she brings it, light up a fat cigar while eating prime rib and drinking fine wine. Party like it's 1979.
PA cigar guys keep a mental database of restaurants in their whole region that have implemented the requirements and allow this. It's a minority of restaurants, but a pretty decent percentage.
Smoking is also allowed in some parts of PA casinos (something like 33% of the floor space and the main bar, although reportedly no casino employees tell you to put your cigar out if you're in the other 66% of the floor unless you're an ass about it or some whiny patron complains to them about your smoke). So, you can smoke a big cigar while using the one-armed bandit, playing roulette, poker, etc.
The leftist pukes are, OF COURSE, trying to eliminate all these exemptions, but they haven't yet. Enjoy it while you can, if you live in or visit PA.
(As an aside, the leftist pukes are using very dishonest propaganda technques. I know, shocker, right? What they did in this case was TOTALLY AGREE to these exemptions in 2008, presumably to get the law passed back then, as without the exemptions it would've failed. Thumbs up, they agreed, approved, rubber stamped it YES, the Dems went on record as saying the exemptions were A-OK. What are they doing now? Now, they're magically calling the exemptions "LOOPHOLES" that need to be "closed". Loopholes MY ASS, you S.O.B.'s EXPRESSLY APPROVED THEM back then! But, that's leftists for you. Dishonest and manipulative to their core. Today's "we totally agree to this concession" is tomorrow's "EVIL LOOPHOLE WE MUST CLOSE!" One little step at a time toward tyranny, there's less resistance that way!)
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