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May 3, 2008 1:10 pm US/Central

Smoking Ban Frustrates Pipe Smokers' Convention

Forbidden From Smoking In Convention Center, Pipe Smokers Must Go To Faraway Tent

  There will be no smoking indoors at a large convention for pipe smokers being held in far west suburban St. Charles.

A new Illinois law bans smoking in public places. That's extinguished some of the fun at this weekend's Chicagoland International Pipe & Tobacciana Show.
The event draws 4,000 pipe collectors from more than 60 countries. Organizers tried to get around the new law by arguing their gathering was a private club meeting.
But police and health officials said no.
Instead, a large smoking tent has been set up 15 feet away from the Pheasant Run convention center.
That's where convention-goer Al Shinogle of Denver lit up his hand-carved pipe and asked: "How would you like it if you went to a wine tasting and you couldn't taste the wine?"

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