Smokers Welcome, Children Banned

People are inventive.

Chuck Fordham, a 41-year-old truck driver, had already come to dread his hauls to Florida, where he could no longer stop for coffee and a cigarette indoors. Kay Fordham, 42, was used to lighting up while selling insurance from a booth at another Dublin diner that allowed smoking before the ban. So the couple bought a vacant restaurant, hired a short-order cook, stocked up on ashtrays and stenciled "No One Under 18 Allowed" on the door. The Smoker's Cafe opened a month after the Georgia ban took effect in July 2005.