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Putting Overbearing Federal Regulations on the Rocks

Mary Katharine Ham | June 29, 2007 11:27 AM

A British pub owner declares his bar an embassy of the tiny Caribbean island of Redonda, thus making it foreign soil, thus making smoking legal again on his own property despite a British law against it.

He'll also avoid the VAT if this works out. Nice work, barman! Pour me another!