[miss marmelstein]

They have signs up in restaurants and no one obeys them. The French have a nice anti-government side to their nature - just check out those yellow jacket folks.

I don’t blame Hockney. He’s a good artist, he’s old and rich, he should live where he wants and eat, drink and smoke like a chimney if he wants.

I abhor smoke nazis.

[MayflowerMadam]

I abhored having to use ALL my leave time — and more — with bronchitis and pneumonia as a result of my smoking co-workers. Using those days to take an actual vacation would’ve been nice ...

[Nothingburger]

I’m retired, I rarely leave my house, I smoke my daily cigar in peace.

[sodpoodle]

***I abhor smoke Nazis***

Tobacco is commerce: agriculture, manufacturing, taxes. etc. If smoking was illegal (like marijuana ) the economy would suffer from second hand stupidity.

Once worked with a young female physician who smoked!!!!

[cgbg]

Interesting explanation about France...

I still it was a risky move on his part--the anti-smoking crazies have gone into over-drive and it is hard to believe that French restaurants can ignore them indefinitely...

I smoke cigars and it is amazing with the bizarre international rules and taxes on cigars.

Example:

Australia's new taxes (just enacted) are something like $100 a cigar (a little complicated but basically that is it).

Spain is the exact opposite--they regulate the _maximum_ price of cigars (to a reasonably low number) which means that you can walk into stores there and get vintage Cubans for dirt cheap prices compared to the rest of the world.

[wita]

I abhor smoke nazis.

I don’t know if I’d go that far, but they sure don’t understand freedom. They almost killed the prosperity of the city of Deadwood after the SD Legislature passed a bill killing smoking in restaurants and Casinos. Probably also included businesses in general but the Casino end of things really hurt. Took a couple of years before things returned to the previous normal.

Interesting in the fact the Legislature ended up hurting the State’s bottom line because of their decision.

[wardaddy]

Me too

And I haven’t smoked since 1991

[Skooz]

They have signs up in restaurants and no one obeys them. The French have a nice anti-government side to their nature - just check out those yellow jacket folks.

In April I spent a few days in Paris and was impressed how the posted signs are more suggestions than law. Everyone pretty much does as they please, within reason.

And it seems traffic laws do not exist at all.