Experts differ on whether Howard County?s new smoking ban might keep new bars away while prompting more family restaurants to open.
“I think it means great growth for the restaurant and bar industry on the whole,” said, Glenn E. Schneider, legislative chairman for Smoke Free Howard County, a volunteer organization based in Columbia that supported the ban.
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