Posted on 05/26/2004 6:18:42 AM PDT by LadyShallott
OSLO, Norway - Ireland’s pioneering ban on smoking in pubs and restaurants seems to be helping some addicts to kick the habit and may be promoting a new way to meet people, Ireland’s health minister said on Tuesday. Micheal Martin, visiting Norway which in June becomes the second nation in the world after Ireland to outlaw smoking in bars and restaurants, said the Irish ban was working well since its launch at the end of March. The nationwide laws, inspired by bans in places such as California and New York City, are meant to protect waiters and other workers from second-hand smoke. But they are having other side-effects, Martin said.
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“Outdoors is apparently the place to touch base, to make contact,” he said, quoting newspaper reports. He joked that the worry now was that people would start smoking to help dating.
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FMCDH(BITS)
I've banned all Irish non-smokers from my property.
So, you wanna go outside and have a smoke later :)
Of course I do. Just wear your black cowboy boots. I melt for a cowboy. :)
Hey, you two go get a room...
Oh, you already have a room.
Nevermind.
(I wonder if theses "reporters" would similarly preen about the wonderful new way that people are meeting each other while standing in line waiting to register their firearms.)
Facism rears it's ugly head around the world again.
Anybody got a light????????
"“Outdoors is apparently the place to touch base, to make contact,” he said, quoting newspaper reports. He joked that the worry now was that people would start smoking to help dating."
Better ban dating to ensure that no one smokes the evil tobacco weed!
ROFL!!!!!!!!!
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My daughter,a non smoker,calls it "smoker bonding".
She worked in a large,one company building, where smoking was prohibited and said that the smokers knew more people in various departments than anyone else because of their outside smoking gatherings.
Smoking areas could be a place to make business connections too.LOL
You're daughter is correct.
Smoking areas at companies that ban it, or in places that have laws have become networking meccas all over.
I know of lots of non-smokers that join the smokers on their breaks for just that reason.
Smoking areas put decision makers on the same level as the mailroom clerks.
You shoulda seen what happened when Slippy asked that question at FRiva Las Vegas...lol
5 lighters from 5 different men and not one a Bic.
doesn't surprise me!!!
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