Nebraska Cigar Bar Rules

[El Baton]

The cigar bar law (LB355) will go into effect Aug. 30. The state Liquor Control Commission will make a final decision on the proposed rules at its September meeting.

The draft rules include:

* Bars cannot sell food.

* Cigarette smoking is not permitted.

* A walk-in humidor must be a separate room, with a door, and be big enough for two or more adults and retail display.

* The business must receive 10 percent or more of gross revenue from the sale of cigars and other tobacco and tobacco-related products.

* An adequate ventilation system is required.

* Cigar bar certificate applicants must hold Class C liquor licenses or have applications for them on file.

* A certificate holder must file quarterly revenue reports on tobacco sales the first year and yearly after that.

* The commission can do unannounced audits.

 

[sloth]

addendum

Cigar bars should finally be allowed cigar smoking in the next few days.
It went into effect already, but no one could apply until after it was offically in the books. I've been waiting too darn long for this...:crackwhip

It wil lbe nice to smoke in Cigarros again.

 

[Sin]

yes it will be very nice; there is one to be opened in the old market as well..can't wait!

 

[mav_sd]

yes it will be very nice; there is one to be opened in the old market as well..can't wait!

YOu triggered mega memory lane with that comment. I'm from south eastern South Dakota originally and our school field trips for the big stuff was always to Omaha... zoo... theater... etc.

No trip was ever complete without a stop in Old Market.

I spent many weekends as a young(er) adult down there having some good times.

Maybe a trip "back home" is in order once this new place opens up?

 

[Sin]

absolutely! S.G. Roi's Tobacconist is where I spent alot of my time when I wasn't in class at Creighton. The barber chairs were awesome!

 

[sloth]

TODAY IS THE DAY... you can now smoke legally in a cigar bar in Nebraska (including Lincoln!) as long as it isn't a cigarette. I think today is the earliest to get the "paperwork" done. I know for a fact you can know smoke in Jake's Cigars downtown Lincoln... and I'm pretty sure you can now smoke again in Cigarros in west Omaha.

It will be nice to finally have a place to smoke at night when the stores are all closed!

 

[ctaylor]

Sounds pretty sweet. I only know of one cigar bar in Philly, its owned by Robert Levin, I have never been up there tho.

 

[e-man67]

Better than Ohio's Cigar Bar rules:

Rule #1 No smoking in bars of any kind.

We have a bar in downtown Cincy called The Havana Martini Club which has a walk in Humidor...it is a freakin Cigar Bar...and you can't smoke in it!

 

[sloth]

Better than Ohio's Cigar Bar rules:

Rule #1 No smoking in bars of any kind.

We have a bar in downtown Cincy called The Havana Martini Club which has a walk in Humidor...it is a freakin Cigar Bar...and you can't smoke in it!

That is the way it has been for the past few years in Lincoln and Omaha. Lincoln was simple. No smoking ANYWHERE... that right, not even cigar STORES. I'm a regular at a B&M called Ted's Tobacco in Lincoln. When the weather is nice we sit out front to smoke cigars. It's fun to make people walk around us.

Omaha was a mess. They first got a smoking ban that excluded cigar stores/bars and bars with Keno. The exemptions shrunk to cigar stores when it was ruled the keno exemption was unconstitutional. During that Omaha didn't want people to just go to the bars in the surrounding areas, so that was when they push a state wide ban. The state wide ban was no smoking anywhere but cigar stores (that sell tobacco and tobacco related products ONLY), special permit, and % of hotel rooms. Now we have the Cigar bar exemption state-wide... which, btw, is being challenged by the same people who challenged the keno exemption. Friggin' bowling alleys anyway... (Yeah they have a point, but in these days you need to get what you can fair or not. If they get their way, again, we lose what little we got as cigar smokers)