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• Cigar exemption raises concern 

Two health advocacy groups are concerned there will be an increase in the number of venue’s calling themselves cigar bars in the Cayman Islands under a plan to exempt them from a general ban on indoor smoking.

Under a revised version of the Tobacco Bill that was released last week, cigar bars – defined in the law as “a licensed business that caters to patrons who smoke cigars on premises,” – will be exempt from the general ban on smoking inside public places.

“The definition of a cigar bar in the bill appears somewhat vague,” the Cayman Islands Cancer Society and the Cayman Heart Fund said in a joint statement. “We are concerned that we will see a sudden increase in the number of cigar bars on all three islands,” they said.

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