Just crush up those stogies and put ‘em in your hookah. From a reader:

The IL smoking ban goes into effect January 1st, and there are a lot of popular smoking clubs in Chicago. We’ve come at this every way and we can’t even smoke if we rent out a private office and let no one in the room but friends who want to have a cigar. Actors performing in plays such as 12 Angry Men will be arrested for smoking on stage.
Last night a liberal at the table who smokes cigars said “well this is your federalism at work.” Well, there’s an argument there, but not quite. None of this would be happening if the tobacco settlement didn’t create a multi-billion dollar industry for anti-smoking programs in every state. It’s one thing for state legislatures to sit down and figure out the best way to do things that suits the people of the state, its another matter entirely to hand billions of dollars of political handout money to professional activists.
You have to wonder if all this won’t eventually collapse under its own weight, but in the meantime things are pretty bleak. I’ve been attending a weekly scotch and cigar night at my club for the past seven years with fellows that have been going for decades. It’s our favorite night of the week and its all coming to an end. The cigars are the whole point and we aren’t going to meet without them.