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Home News Smoking lounges ready to fill a loophole: Restaurant morphs into a tobacco shop

Smoking lounges ready to fill a loophole: Restaurant morphs into a tobacco shop

Wednesday, December 26 2007

By Robert Mitchum (Chicago Tribune)

Just as cigarettes are about to be stubbed out across Illinois, a Humboldt Park taco restaurant has swiftly transformed itself into one of the few businesses untouched by the impending statewide smoking ban: a tobacco shop.

On Jan. 1, Illinois will become the 22nd state to implement a ban on smoking in virtually all public places, from bowling alleys and bars to restaurants and casinos. An exemption, however, will preserve tobacco shops as the last public smoking refuges, prompting at least one business owner to trade sopas for smokes.

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