Content on Smoking Ban:

Restaurants move to enact smoking ban

December 1, 2009

Businesses must now begin to gauge the effects of a new statewide ban on smoking in restaurants.

Smoking ban sends wrong message

December 1, 2009

The editorial board is comprised of three nonsmokers and one smoker.

Virginia restaurants go smoke-free

November 30, 2009

A statewide ban on smoking in restaurants will go into effect today.

News in brief: Sept. 30

September 29, 2009

Column: Ignore others' vices: Choice to smoke is a personal one

September 7, 2009

This year will be better than the last.

Area hookah bars contemplate smoking ban

April 6, 2009

Smoking will be banned from restaurants in Virginia beginning on Dec. 1, including hookah bars and lounges such as Blacksburg's She-Sha Cafe and Hookah Lounge.

Blacksburg venues prepare for smoking ban

February 26, 2009

Just a few miles off Interstate 95 in Richmond, littered with JR Tobacco billboards, the newly elected State Legislature passed a statewide ban on smoking in restaurants. By Dec. 1, 2009, smoking sections will be limited to independently ventilated rooms,

Editorial: Smoking indoors is not right in Va.

February 24, 2009

Have you ever walked past a coat you had hanging on a hook or draped over a chair and been hit with the reeking, stale smell of tobacco? If you're a smoker, you're out of luck. But if not, you might be interested in a piece of legislation that went throug

News in brief: Feb. 20

February 19, 2009

Column: Smoking regulations would serve Tech

January 28, 2009

My lungs were assaulted yesterday by a terrible puff of secondhand smoke. The assailant was a white male about twenty years of age. He was last seen wearing a maroon VT T-shirt. If you see this man, please do not make any attempt to apprehend him yourself

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