Bar owners against smoking ban

Monday, December 21 2009

By Bill Rosenberger
The Herald-Dispatch

HUNTINGTON [WV] -- Phillip Mann, who owns a gaming parlor on Washington Avenue and West 6th Street, doesn't smoke and said he's against smoking.

But he said he simply cannot support the all-out smoking ban for bars and game rooms that is being proposed by the Cabell-Huntington Health Department.

"As much as I hate smoking -- and I do -- there will be a greater harm to the general public," said Mann, who led a bar owners' meeting at VFW Post 1064 in Huntington on Monday evening.

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