NEWS9 crews headed to a private club in the valley to get their take on the latest move.

The Moose Lodge 619 is a private club in Steubenville, and you can see the no smoking sign before you even walk in the door.

It’s a sign that member Mike Kenefick doesn't agree with.

“I don't like it,” said Kenefick.

A judge in Franklin County, Ohio, delayed a rule on Monday that would exempt private clubs from the smoking ban.

The Ohio Licensed Beverage Association is fighting the new law because it would allow private club members to smoke as long as the club has no employees.

Kenefick has been a member of the Moose Lodge for 41 years, and said he thinks all private clubs should be allowed to permit smoking.

“I feel it is their own business,” said Kenefick. “You should be able to do what you want."

NEWS9 crews also caught up with some local shoppers, and most of the people we talked to seemed to think as long as smokers stay out of public places, private establishments should be able to do as they please.

“If I want to sit down and have a cigar in a private, confined place, and they allow it, so be it,” said Nick Busic, of Steubenville."

“If they are private, I don't have nothing against that,” said Louis Thompson, of Mingo Junction, Ohio. “But in the public, that's a different thing, but in private, I think they can do what they want."

The beverage association's president said the group wants to make sure private clubs are on equal footing when competing for customers.

The Ohio smoking ban went into effect on Dec. 7, 2006.

But crews from the state and local health departments will be fully enforcing the rules starting on Thursday, May 3.

Natalie Pasquarella, NEWS9