Multimedia: Impact of smoking ban in Baltimore

July 3, 2008

In his Business Friday cover story today, Andy Rosen reports on the impact of the smoking ban on a bar in Keymar, Md. - just minutes from the Pennsylvania line. The Crossroads Inn got a hardship waiver that exempts it from the smoking ban beginning June 18, after the owner said the ban almost put him out of business.

From the story:

He said he lost somewhere between 45 percent and 60 percent of his sales because regular customers began driving to Pennsylvania, where it’s legal to smoke inside. Instead of staying open until last call, Brandendburg said he would shutter his bar at around 10 o’clock most nights.

He said he took out a $40,000 loan and sold two antique trucks to keep the Crossroads Inn afloat. “I thought for sure I wouldn’t make it,” Brandenburg said.

Multimedia Reporter Richard Simon went to The Havana Club in Baltimore, the only other establishment to get an exemption from the smoking ban. Watch his video below to see what a longtime customer says about the ban’s effect there (pre- and post-exemption) and hear from several other restaurateurs.

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Posted by Jackie Sauter | Filed Under business, law, multimedia, smoking ban 

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