High 5: Smoke 'em if you got 'em

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Cat's Eye Pub

We had a funny feeling that the smoking ban might not prove terribly popular at Cat's Eye. Maybe it was the blues band with cigarettes wedged into the necks of their guitars a la Keith Richards, or perhaps it was the giant flag draped across the ceiling that said in capital letters, "DON'T TREAD ON ME," or maybe it's just the fact that this old bar sits in the heart of Fells Point—the very shipyard that helped build Baltimore and was once the haunt of Merchant marines, sailors, privateers and other less savory characters. How do you tell a pirate not to smoke? "Now listen here Calico Jack, you'll have to take that outside. Why, don't you know the effects of secondhand smoke? Don't you rattle your saber at me!" Arrrrrrrrgh!