Two council members are hoping to ban smoking in bars and restaurants throughout Atlanta.

Today, Matt Westmoreland and Andre Dickens introduced a measure that would ban smoking in bars, restaurants, city-owned buildings and Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.

According to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, an exemption will be included for cigar and hookah bars.

Featured image via CC BY-SA 2.0 Brett Weinstein via Wikimedia Commons

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Charlie Minato

I am an editor and co-founder of halfwheel.com/Rueda Media, LLC. I previously co-founded and published TheCigarFeed, one of the two predecessors of halfwheel. I have written about the cigar industry for more than a decade, covering everything from product launches to regulation to M&A. In addition, I handle a lot of the behind-the-scenes stuff here at halfwheel. I enjoy playing tennis, watching boxing, falling asleep to the Le Mans 24, wearing sweatshirts year-round and eating gyros. echte liebe.