NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — A bill on its third and final reading at Metro Council Tuesday night could soon ban smoking in most Nashville bars. The legislation bans smoking and vaping in certain places ...

There’s an annual ritual in Baton Rouge, and it goes like this: A bill to ban smoking in bars and casinos is sent to the House and Senate floors and offered up as sacrifice -practically burned alive ...

For Jim Eastridge, owner of Magoo’s Sports Bar in Salem, the decision to make his business smoke-free took months. After all, for 35 years he had been accommodating his smoking patrons. In the end, ...

PIERRE - Gov. Mike Rounds says the need to protect people from secondhand smoke played a role in his decision to sign a measure that bans smoking in South Dakota's bars, video lottery casinos and ...

It’s still early in Minnesota’s legislative session and while we hadn’t expected to see much progress in St. Paul at this stage we certainly don’t like to see lawmakers moving backwards. Rep. Tom ...

Starting next June, smokers must go outside of bars and casinos to light up . On Wednesday, the East Baton Rouge Metro Council passed a compromise ban that will outlaw smoking inside bars and casinos ...

HARAHAN, La. (WVUE) - If advocates could get their way, Jefferson Parish would move quickly to ban smoking in bars outright parish-wide. But in a conservative parish, even some supportive of ...

TOM. YEAH, JERRY, UNDER THE EXISTING CLEAN AIR ACT, IF YOU GO TO A CASINO, FOR INSTANCE, THERE ARE PARTS OF THAT FACILITY WHERE YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO SMOKE INSIDE. THIS BILL WOULD CHANGE THAT AND SOME ...

Matt Hamburg works at the bar at The Mackinaw Brewing Co. on East Front Street. Hamburg said he thought the business would be fine if the city or state banned smoking in bars and restaurants. TRAVERSE ...

A large majority of west-central Minnesotans think smoking should be banned in indoor workplaces, even bars, a survey released Wednesday shows. The survey's director said the polling data should serve ...

After a unanimous vote by the Board of the Boston Public Health Commission last month, Boston will become the 70th city in the nation to ban smoking in bars and clubs. Starting May 5, nightspots in ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — A new bill that will be introduced at Metro Council on Tuesday could ban not only smoking, but also vaping in Nashville bars and restaurants. This bill stems from a recent ...