Ventilation in your Lounge or B&M

[lenguamor]

I guess I didn't realize how good I had it in Seattle; apparently there are regulations there which dictate a certain level of ventilation/extraction by square footage.

At Smokey Joe's in Fife, our regular Mossback hangout, I never felt "smoked out" despite there being 30 or more cigars lit in the room at peak (Taco Tuesday!).

Yet now that I'm back in Miami, I haven't been to one place where I haven't felt that I was smoking every cigar in the room...and in some cases, that's been over 15 cigars. It wears on you after a couple hours, you know?

Now, clearly, I'm a smoker. But with the lack of ventilation in local places it gets to the point where I can't even taste my own cigar anymore.

What's up with that? Are the regs just that lax down here, or are shop/lounge owners simply ignoring the law? How is it in your local joints?