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SACRAMENTO-

Smoking may not be the healthiest thing for you, but Shady Lady General Manager Carl Wenger knows all too well that customers like to smoke.

“Not only that, we even sell cigars here. This is a bar,” he said.

Wenger says the Shady Lady has a large outdoor patio for that very reason. “We’ve been open for five years,” he told FOX40 Monday.

But an idea for a new ordinance would ban smoking on the Shady Lady’s patio, and every other patio in Sacramento restaurants and bars.

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The idea came from Sacramento City Council member Steve Hansen.

“When somebody lights up, I personally have to move to a new table,” Hansen told FOX40 Monday. “It’s about setting a new standard. Sacramento would join over 70 other cities in California that have already done this.” Hansen told FOX40 Monday that banning outdoor smoking on restaurant and bar patios is a step in the right direction.

Four city council members will meet at 3 p.m. Tuesday to engage in the first public discussion about a potential outdoor smoking ban.

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