Nobody expects to recapture the 50s and 60s. With the anti-smoking zealots, though, it's a never-ending series of 'finding a happy medium' (which then leads to the next temporary 'happy medium'):
1. Separate smoking and non-smoking areas in restaurants
2. No smoking at all in restaurants.
3. No smoking in any building except bars.
4. No smoking in bars.
5. No smoking within some number of feet of any door or window.
6. In some cities, no smoking on sidewalks, open air parks, and beaches.
What's next?
I saw a great cartoon once that showed a couple in a restaurant complaining to the waiter the the people at the next table were TALKING about smoking.
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“What’s next?”
It’s actually worse depending on where you are in the country. There have been efforts w/varying degrees of success to:
-allow employers not hire smokers, even if not smoking on the job
-have condominiums where smokers cannot smoke within their own units
-disallow parents from smoking in the car if children are present.
So let’s see, it’s not just keeping smoking confined to smaller and smaller areas, it’s about denying them employment, housing, and the right to a family.
Sounds pretty nazi to me. I’m just surprised they haven’t started bulldozing the bodies of smokers into mass graves yet.
THAT’s what would be next.