"I mean, whoever thought that they would ban smoking in bars?"
The legislature appeared ready today to kill a proposal to ban "happy hours" in bars.
Glassboro considered banning smoking in bars but changed its mind.
"We're moving to ban smoking even in bars, the last bastion," he said.
It's worth remembering, nine years on, that Bloomberg's push to ban smoking in bars was controversial at the time.
California began the effort to ban smoking in bars back in 1998.
Virginia banned smoking in bars and restaurants in January 2010.
Under state and city laws, smoking is banned in bars and restaurants.
The state banned smoking in bars as of last Jan. 1.
In 2004, Murphy supported a bill that would ban smoking in all restaurants and bars.