Multimedia: Before start of smoking ban, a “Last Hurrah”

With the state’s smoking ban in effect as of this weekend, many Baltimore-area bars and restaurants held a final hurrah on Thursday night.

Photographer Rich Dennison was at Morton’s the Steakhouse to cover a 55-person event where cigar aficionados bid farewell to a public pastime. Listen to the audio slideshow below and view Rich’s exquisite photographs from the last night of indoor smoking in a Baltimore restaurant.

See the slideshow in a larger format here.

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