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The Buddha Bar: Solution to the city's indoor smoking ban
PageSix ^ | 6/26/06 | Richard Johnson

Posted on 04/27/2006 11:36:38 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection

NEW Buddha Bar on Little West 12th Street has come up with a novel solution to the city's indoor smoking ban. The lavishly designed restaurant/lounge, the Meatpacking District's newest, features a glass-walled atrium, open to the sky, where smokers can enjoy their vice while they keep an eye on their friends, and strangers, inside...

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: ny
Image more of these. Imagine cigar smokers. Imagine liberal ewacko reactions...
1 posted on 04/27/2006 11:36:41 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

I wonder what happens when it rains.


2 posted on 04/27/2006 11:46:28 AM PDT by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
That should be short-lived...
The innovative tolerant controlling twits, in California, who profess to want us to quit, but not to quit sending them our tax dollars, simple write into the law "

"...or within 50 feet of a non-smoking facility".

Unless the atrium is 200 feet across...

3 posted on 04/27/2006 12:00:03 PM PDT by Publius6961 (Multiculturalism is the white flag of a dying country)
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To: Publius6961
Local dolts are attempting to do the same to us. Privately owned establishments decided to build outdoor decks with awnings to escape the indoor rules only to face amendments requiring "... or within xx feet..."

I posted this to demonstrate the absurdity of further amendments and how they might be received publicly.

4 posted on 04/27/2006 12:11:38 PM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
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