At midnight last night in
New Orleans, bar owners
collected up all the ashtrays
and told their customers that
the citywide No Smoking ban
in bars in now in effect.
Pictured is the Kingpin Bar
just before midnight.
This is a big change for the
Big Easy.
Campbell Robertson reports.
NYTimes: New Orleans' Bars Issue Last Call For Smoking
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...
