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    As Beverly Hills weighs tobacco ban, aficionados rally behind a 'treasured' cigar club

    by Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times May 21, 2019 3 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - The city of Beverly Hills is expected to approve what officials say is the most stringent tobacco ban in the country, eliminating the sale of virtually all recreational nicotine products - with one very Beverly Hills exception.

    For an elite group of aficionados, hundreds of whom swamped committee meetings and wrote the city in protest, cigars will be spared - as long as they're smoked inside one of three dedicated lounges.

    Entreaties have poured in from top executives at real estate offices, security firms, talent agencies - and from

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