Michigan’s largest airport could be opening a cigar lounge.

Detroit Metropolitan Airport is seeking proposals for a bar lounge concept with food, retail cigars and an enclosed cigar smoking area, according to the Wayne County Airport Authority (WCAA).

Proposals for the space in the McNamara Terminal will have to include a state-of-the-art air handling and ventilation systems, as well as facility design to reduce smoke exposure to non-lounge visitors.

A request for proposals was released Oct. 1 with a deadline set in January.

The move to add a cigar lounge has been met by some opposition, however, from the nonprofit advocacy group, Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights (ANR). The group said travelers shouldn’t have to be exposed to secondhand smoke exposure while traveling in and out of Detr

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