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Health Department sanitarians found cigarette butts in a cup, and ashes by a pool table at the bar during a surprise inspection last week, according to the complaint. The Cantina previously received a warning from the Health Department about smoking violations.

The bar's owner, Tina Jenkins, could not immediately be reached for comment.

Jenkins was ordered to appear Nov. 3 in Kanawha County Magistrate Court to answer the complaint, which was filed late Wednesday afternoon.

Her husband, Keith, has been an outspoken critic of the smoking regulations during recent health board meetings.

Last week, the Health Department filed criminal complaints against McNalley's Pub in Cross Lanes, Lisa's and the Moose Lodge in Nitro, and the Hot Spot Coffee Shop and Blackhawk Saloon in Charleston.

The charges were the first enforcement actions taken by the Health Department since the smoking ban took effect July 1.

Bars and gambling parlors face fines of $200 to $2,000, if found guilty. The Health Department has threatened to pull health permits from businesses that repeatedly violate the smoking ban.

Read more in Friday's Gazette.

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Posted By: mtnmedic (10:56am 10-10-2008)

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No doubt these tobacco addicts couldn't care less about the health of others. Their childrens are victims of their lack of self control, being exposed to carcinogens daily at home and particularly concentrated doses in their vehicles. If they don't even care enough about their own offspring not to expose them to these deadly poisons, then they're certainly not going to care about the rest of us. Anyone so pathetically stupid enough to continue smoking is too stupid to comprehend what they're doing to others. Let's stop trying to reform them and start making them pay with big fines. They drive up the cost of health care for everyone--and they don't care. They monopolize medical resources that could be used to treat people wose illnesses aren't self-inflicted like their own--they don't care. They cause structure fires that kill innocent people (non-smokers and smokers) destroy millions of $ of property, driving up insurance costs--they don't care. Make them pay and pay BIG!

Posted By: wvjen (9:04am 10-10-2008)

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"ANYONE LIVING IN THIS VALLEY AND BREATHING THE CHEMICALS, CARBIN DIOXIDE FROM CARS AND TRUCKS AND MANY OTHER POLLUTENTS ARE FAR MORE LIKELY TO GET SICK FROM THOSE THAN SITTING IN A BAR FOR A SHORT PERIOD BREATHING SECOND HAND SMOKE!!!" I assume you're a smoker. I'm not and have some pretty strong allergies to smoke. I work in Charleston and breathe the carbOn dioxide and other pollutAnts you mentioned, but typically go home everyday feeling fine. Ask my friends what happens when I sit "in a bar for a short period breathing second hand smoke" though. If I'm there, that's where I choose to be, so I deal with it. Whereas I do have a much better time going out now that the smoking ban is in place, I would agree that going to bars brings with it an expectancy that you'll encounter smoke. If you don't like it, STAY HOME, or go to a restaurant to drink! Even with the allergies, I can personally deal with the smoke much better than some of the drunks and rednecks I run into.

Posted By: smck (3:16am 10-10-2008)

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THEY SHOULD NOT ALLOW NON SMOKERS TO VOTE ON SMOKING LAWS. IF YOU DON'T DO IT YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU ARE DOING. IT IS NOT ILLEGAL TO SELL CIGARETTES, OR BUY THEM, BUT YOU CAN TELL US WHERE WE CAN SMOKE!!!!! THOSE OF YOU WHO DON'T LIKE IT AND THINK THAT SECOND HAND SMOKE IS HARMING YOUR HEALTH SHOULD STAY OUT OF SMOKING BARS. I WOULD BET THAT THE ONES MAKING THESE RULES DON'T GO TO BARS ANYWAY! ANYONE LIVING IN THIS VALLEY AND BREATHING THE CHEMICALS, CARBIN DIOXIDE FROM CARS AND TRUCKS AND MANY OTHER POLLUTENTS ARE FAR MORE LIKELY TO GET SICK FROM THOSE THAN SITTING IN A BAR FOR A SHORT PERIOD BREATHING SECOND HAND SMOKE!!! WHY CAN'T YOU MAKE EVERYONE HAPPY AND HAVE SMOKING AND NON SMOING BARS!!!

Posted By: mounties3 (5:12pm 10-09-2008)

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Would you addicts please read what you write? It's the Health Dept. issuing these violations, not the police. Surely the tar and nicotine hasn't blocked off so much of your brains that you didn't realize that police catch criminals, not the Health Dept. The key word is HEALTH... they are taskedwith protecting peoples' HEALTH. You addicts are sad,really sad...

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