Smoking Battle Snuffed by ABC
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Updated: 8:19 PM Feb 7, 2009
Smoking Battle Snuffed by ABC
Officials are shutting down a Charleston bar that has openly defied Kanawha County's expanded smoking ban, according to the bar's owner.
Posted: 8:03 PM Feb 7, 2009
Reporter: The Associated Press
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- Officials are shutting down a Charleston bar that has openly defied Kanawha County's expanded smoking ban, according to the bar's owner.

Blackhawk Saloon owner Kerry "Paco" Ellison says state Alcohol Beverage Control Administration agents notified him early Saturday that the County Health Department plans to revoke his bar's health permit on Monday.

Ellison will lose his liquor license as a result.

Ellision had encouraged Blackhawk customers to smoke and defy the ban over the past seven months.

The health department filed misdemeanor charges against the bar for smoking-ban violations; the cases remain pending.

Kanawha County Commission President Kent Carper says the action sends a message that the law should be obeyed.

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Posted by: anonymous on Feb 9, 2009 at 08:23 PM

I see kids in cars all the time with their parents or who ever smoking. walked by a car yesterday, lady and man were in there smoking with look like a 2 year old and a baby. Both kids on their lap. Pass cars all the time with little kids in there and people are smoking. Ask me that should be conisidered child abuse. I dont care what you do with your body, but these little ones can speak for theirselves, so someone needs too.
Posted by: Score Keeper on Feb 9, 2009 at 07:38 PM

If anyone is keeping score, I would have to say 'lite em up' SMOKED 'One womans voice' on that last posting, no pun intended, of course. I’d put the score at 2-0 in favor of lite em up. I would also venture to say that the dust that has collected on that Good Enough Diploma from Kellogg’s U. that 'one woman' has hanging in her daddy's double wide is probably as thick as the tar that has built up in her lungs over these past 30 years of her smok'n habit. It’s true, ignorance really is bliss!
Posted by: Go Kerry! on Feb 9, 2009 at 03:04 PM

First, Congrats Kerry for standing up to the KCHD and their Nazi rules! This is a rule, not a law! I don't see how they can really uphold and or enforce it, but we shall see! Second, to the non-smokers commenting so negatively...get a life! Surely you have better things to worry about than who is smoking in a bar? Like others have stated below...it is a "free" country and if you don't like smoking, then choose not to enter a smoking establishment. When the USA allows that anyone old enough can purchase tobacco and pay taxes on that tobacco, then they have the right to use said tobacco. Especially in a bar! It is understood as an adult that you have certain choices. These choices are slowly being taken away from us and we can't allow that to continue. If you want a non-smoking bar, then by all means open one up! Let the bars that want to allow smoking post a sign and then you can choose to enter or not! Your choice!
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