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Mar 6, 10:09 PM EST
Minnesota Bars Beat Smoking Ban
By GREGG AAMOT
Associated Press Writer
MAPLEWOOD, Minn. (AP) -- All the world's a stage at some of Minnesota's bars. A new state ban on smoking in restaurants and other nightspots contains an exception for performers in theatrical productions. So some bars are getting around the ban by printing up playbills, encouraging customers to come in costume, and pronouncing them "actors."
The customers are playing right along, merrily puffing away - and sometimes speaking in funny accents and doing a little improvisation, too.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SMOKING_BAN_LOOPHOLE?SITE=KYWIN&SECTION=STRANGE&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
Minnesota Bars Beat Smoking Ban
By GREGG AAMOT
Associated Press Writer
MAPLEWOOD, Minn. (AP) -- All the world's a stage at some of Minnesota's bars. A new state ban on smoking in restaurants and other nightspots contains an exception for performers in theatrical productions. So some bars are getting around the ban by printing up playbills, encouraging customers to come in costume, and pronouncing them "actors."
The customers are playing right along, merrily puffing away - and sometimes speaking in funny accents and doing a little improvisation, too.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SMOKING_BAN_LOOPHOLE?SITE=KYWIN&SECTION=STRANGE&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT