High court stubs out state appeal for cigar bar smoking

 

"Telling the corpse it's dead"

(journalstar.com) Cigar bar owners across Nebraska will put an end to indoor smoking in the coming days after a last-ditch effort to preserve the right failed this week.

The Nebraska Supreme Court on Wednesday denied without comment a request by the state to rehear the Big John's Billiards v. Nebraska case, the latest legal challenge to the state's indoor smoking ban by the Omaha pool hall.

State senators in 2009 created exceptions to the 2008 smoking ban allowing smoking inside cigar bars and tobacco shops. Continued