Friday, July 02 2010
By Ben Palosaari (
Pitch.com)
Kansas' private clubs were saved by the courts and exempted from the new statewide smoking ban. But that's no help to the state's numerous bingo parlors who will have to go smoke-free.
Shawnee District Court Franklin Theis ruled Wednesday that a statewide smoking ban, which went into effect yesterday, shouldn't have exempted private clubs licensed before January 1, 2009. Clubs licensed since then, they're so lucky...story continues here