Metro Council approves ordinance allowing smoking inside cigar bars

Louisville creates cigar bars exemption to indoor smoking ban

A man smokes a cigar and drinks a Mint Julep at Churchill Downs before the Kentucky Oaks race. (Justin Hicks)Louisvillians looking to smoke cigars at a bar will no longer have to travel across the river to Southern Indiana.Metro Council voted Thursday night to carve out a new exemption to the 2008 indoor smoking ban. Bars with at least 15% of their gross revenues coming from the sale of cigars and pipe tobacco will be allowed to have their patro…

Metro Council approves ordinance allowing smoking inside cigar bars

Metro Council has approved to amend an ordinance enabling customers to smoke indoors at designated cigar bars in Louisville.

Smoking will be allowed again inside some Louisville businesses. Here's what to know