The Smoking Jacket Cigar Lounge has made its mark in Cedar Hill. “I’ve been here six years and it has been amazing,” Smoking Jacket Cigar Lounge owner Roz Stafford-Grady said. But as an ...

Smoking Jacket Cigar Lounge owner Roz Stafford-Grady will be the first African American to have a cigar lounge at the State Fair of Texas, with her Cedar Hill-based business..

While cigar bars and tobacco shops are exempt under the law, critics of the DTW cigar lounge argue the WCAA plan stretches those exemptions and threatens to undermine smoke-free protections statewide.

The space — which is 7,000 square feet — doubles the footprint from the previous Modern Cigar store. Where rows of DVD shelves once stood, padded lounge furniture now fill the floor.