"Nobody likes to admit they're a smoker," one explained as he puffed outside Rams Head Tavern. (In an amusing sign of how socially unacceptable tobacco has become, he then compared giving me his name with publicly admitting he smoked marijuana.)
I wanted to know how Maryland's smoking ban was working out four months in, and I figured those who'd venture outside to smoke in 97-degree heat would have strong feelings on...
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