I have a few questions about anti-smoking laws in Florida.First Ive heard the law bans smoking in restaurants and not bars, but in CA I read an article about a private cigar bar that serves a full dinner, is there such an exemption for private clubs? My 2nd question, can you smoke in a separated lounge/bar area in a restaurant in FL? And, can you smoke in a hotel bar?

I visit Florida regularly and just returned from a week there.

The law bans smoking indoors almost everywhere except hotel rooms, tobacco shops, private clubs without employees and stand-alone bars, which are defined as making no more than 10% of revenue from food. You cannot smoke in restaurant or hotel lounges. A bar would have to have a separate outside entrance and sell almost no food to qualify.

If a store makes the bulk of its revenue from tobacco sales, it might be able to serve food and still qualify as a tobacco shop.

A club that does not hire nonmembers could probably do what it wanted.

I have been to a strip club that makes enough off booze that it can serve expensive full meals and permit smoking.

Many restaurants and bars have smoking patios. The law is the applied the same throughout the state.

tabacco nazis. they wont rest until prohibition.

Florida's law, one of the early statewide bans, is actually a lot more flexible than what's just passed in Minnesota, New Hampshire, Washington, etc.

Florida is lucky that a ban with any exemptions is even in their consitution. That makes the likelihood of any future tampering very small.