Just getting back from a restaurant in Coronado, CA that told me cigarette smoking was permitted on their patio but not cigars because of the "thicker" smoke/smell cigars leave behind....don't know about you, but cigarettes smell far worse than my cigars (esp. Cubans)....here's the question: should I be a prick and call restaurant corporate HQ's and claim they need to ban cigarette smoking as well--which I find far more offensive--or, leave well enough alone and smoke my cigar elsewhere?

Why don't you call and voice the opinion that cigars should be allowed, instead?

But I hear you, it's very annoying.

That is the norm around restaurants here in NC. Most places allow cigarettes(yuk) but frown on cigars and pipes. We do, however, have anumber of places left that DO allow cigars. They receive my business..........

I just wish we didn't have the smoking bad here at all. I'd put up with the disgusting smell of cigs so I could smoke inside again. A few patio restraunts here will allow both but not many. Thank god for the few cigar bars around town and my own back patio. I think the smell of cigarettes are like licking an ash tray and I can't imagine why anyone would prefer that to the sweet aroma of a Padron or Chohiba anyday but we are all intittled to an opinion. Even if some are clouded with gross cigarette tar
I think that if an establishement is going to allow smoke, allow all kinds or allow nothing. It seems discriminatory otherwise. it's like allowing vodka but not rum.

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Originally posted by roycigar:here's the question: should I be a prick and call restaurant corporate HQ's and claim they need to ban cigarette smoking as well--which I find far more offensive--or, leave well enough alone and smoke my cigar elsewhere?

Only if you believe in silly sourgrapes and highschool logic.

NYC does not allow smoking INSIDE any restaurants (except Club Macanudo) and very few have al fresco dining. If I were to go to a restaurant with outside tables I would light my cigar regardless of the RULES. How the hell can they tell you what to do OUTSIDE?

i don't get the point that they allow cigarette smoking but not cigars. if they should ban it, then it should include cigarettes or none at all.

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Bumper, that's my thought--should be all or none, but that is the way things are at many restaurants in So. Cal. It's ashame it was a perfect California evening and I had a birdseye view overlooking San Diego Bay and the downtown area....good news is this is not a place I normally smoke at, although I do eat here 35-40 times a year. I tried speaking with the manager and told him perhaps complaints he received in the past was from an oversensitive group and requests should be handled on an individual, nightly case basis (i.e. if one night is crowded and people are eating on the outdoor patio, I can understand their unwillingness to permit cigar smoking....if, however, nobody is eating on the patio and/or there's only one table and they do not mind an exception could be made--the putz manager wanted no part of this)....again, I'll smoke elsewhere and perhaps the frequency in which I dine at Il Fornaio will decrease.

I would go there to eat with as many people as i can find.Ask to be seated outside and at the first sign of someone lighting up a cigarette.Get up and complain about the smoke then get up and leave let him think about that one for a while.