Some D.C. lawmakers said the ban would benefit Black communities that use menthol cigarettes in higher numbers, but others worried of increased enforcement on those very communities.

According to a D.C. group, a number of hookah bars and a new cigar lounge are violating D.C.’s ban on smoking in bars and restaurants.

There are very few bars in D.C. where you can legally light up, but the Civil Cigar Lounge in Friendship Heights gives smokers a place to congregate.

Cleveland Park residents and smokers from across the city were saddened to see Bedrock Management’s Aroma close its doors a few weeks ago. Word around town is that the space will reopen after renovations as some kind of wine & tapas spot, with the crucial difference being that it will no longer sell cigars. Whatever ends up replacing it, one of the few bars inside the District that legally allowed smoking is gone for…

The Washington Post went to the trouble of putting up an online poll of its readers this morning over whether they agree with a recent Prince George’s County decision to ban the sale of single cigars. The County, you see, has decided to outlaw single cigar sales because teens are buying them in order to use the cigar paper to roll big-ass blunts. Blunts, spliffs, fatties and other jumbo-sized marijuana joints may be big in…