As the public smoking ban
approaches for the city of
New Orleans on April 22,
the city has decided that
casinos are not getting a break.
Even though Harrah's has
complained that they will lose
25% of their revenues from
the ban, the City Council
refused the casino's request
to more time to prepare for
the change. Looks like smoky
jazz clubs and gambling halls
are becoming extinct in
N' Orleans...
clarionledger.com: New Orleans stands by smoking bans in casinos
From Nola.com, Keith
Spera comments on his
colleague James Varney's
nostalgia for Hermann
Leonard's photos of "jazz
icons in smoke filled
nightclubs" of the bygone
era" and how jazz, blues
and ragtime can't be as
cool now because of the
lack of cigarette smoke.
Think the band and the
audience would disagree...
not to say that the band
wasn't smokin'...
Times-Picayune: Smoking in New Orleans Music Clubs Stinks, Despite the Myth...
