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Article: Smoking ban hits tax till
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- Sunday Gazette-Mail
- Article date:
- October 11, 2009
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The drive by West Virginia bar owners to protect their businesses
from the smoking ban has taken a hit from the Kanawha-Charleston
Health Department and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., maker of Winston
cigarettes.
Kerry "Paco" Ellison, owner of the Blackhawk Saloon in
Charleston, took the double blow after resisting the ban for more
than a year and becoming prominent statewide in the movement by bar
owners.
Reynolds charged Ellison with using an inflatable balloon of a
pack of Winston cigarettes to the detriment of the company by
promoting "unlawful smoker rights and to encourage patrons of your
bar to violate the county's smoking ban."
Ellison told Gazette staff writer Eric Eyre, "It just ...