These are the days of Atkins and bottled water, an era of competitive healthy living when it's hard to catch a whiff of tobacco smoke in a public space. It's easy to smell the tobacco if you eat in a ...

When an early-morning fire last month destroyed Bella Italia, the popular downtown Cape Girardeau restaurant, the cause wasn't faulty wiring, a stovetop burner left on or a brutal act of nature. It ...

A Senate committee recently gave its approval to a newly proposed bill that would ultimately make it harder for people to smoke in restaurants. “Delegate Griffith believes that this is a good idea,” ...

Howard County last night became the fourth jurisdiction in Maryland to ban smoking in bars and restaurants, though the measure won't be fully effective for four years. The measure, approved by the ...

More than 60 restaurants in Alexandria have voluntarily agreed to ban all smoking on their premises. That means no smoking anywhere -- in the restaurant, at the bar, even at the tables outside. "It ...

Rhode Island casino workers are pushing for a smoking ban, similar to the 2005 ban in restaurants and bars. Concerns about the ban's impact on business are reminiscent of arguments made against the ...

More than three months after Virginia's new restrictions on smoking in restaurants went into effect, about 88 percent of restaurants in the state have gone smoke-free, the state Health Department says ...

The majority of Fargo and West Fargo bars will be able to keep their smoking privileges, but restaurants in both cities will be required to go smoke free, unofficial voting results showed Tuesday. In ...

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Now that the smoke has cleared from bars and lounges in Tucson, many owners of those establishments say smokers are going elsewhere, too. Sales have dropped anywhere from 10 to 20 percent since the ...