LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska’s Liquor Control Commission will allow smoking at cigar bars, pending a Nebraska Supreme Court ruling.

The cigar bar owners will be able to renew their special licenses, which otherwise would have expired Oct. 31.

Commission executive director Hobert Rupe says he’s been warning the bar owners that they might have only a few days to stop the smoking once the court rules.

The state Supreme Court in August struck down exceptions to the state’s public smoking ban for cigar bars and tobacco shops. The Nebraska Attorney General’s Office subsequently asked the court to rehear the case, arguing in part that the judges failed to properly consider that lawmakers intended to protect cigar bars and tobacco shops from going out of business.