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Judge Rules Against Bar Owners on Smoking Ban Posted 5 August 2008 A Polk County judge yesterday, Monday, Aug. 4, refused to grant a coalition of bar owners a restraining order that would block officials from enforcing Iowa's new stop smoking ban, which went into effect July 1 statewide. Bar owners seeking to stop enforcement of the ban lost their first battle in their lawsuit against the state. The group filed the lawsuit on July 1, the same day the Iowa Smokefree Air Act went into effect. They argue the ban, which prohibits smoking in nearly all public places including restaurants and most bars, is unconstitutional. Judge Douglas Staskal says the group's only viable complaint in the lawsuit is that the act unfairly allows smoking in some areas while banning it in other areas. But he says the public's interest in enjoying the health benefits under the law outweigh the group's request for the restraining order.

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