At the Owl Shop in New Haven, Smoking Is Encouraged

(NYTimes) Cool jazz, fine whiskey and smoke-filled rooms used to go together. Then smoking bans arrived, literally changing the atmosphere in jazz clubs. But those bans bypassed establishments like the Owl Shop, a cigar store in the heart of New Haven, and a decade after a major renovation, the shop has transformed itself into a music lounge where the smoke-filled past lives on. Continued