[MamaTexan]

Twenty years ago you could smoke at the grocery store and look where we are today.

LOL!

I have to admit smoking in a regular grocery store is where I personally draw the line.

Not that I have the right to tell a grocery store owner he couldn't allow smoking, I just wouldn't patronize one that did.

I don't even smoke in my house, much less around food! Ugh!

(grin)

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We do have a local Mom & Pop convenience store that has a section in the back where the locals coffee clatch every morning, and customers and employees do smoke in the store. Places like that where all freedoms are still honored is one of the joys of living in the sticks! :-)

[RandallFlagg]

Well, not anymore. You just blew their cover.

;-)

[Just A Nobody]

My point was not what is right or wrong, simply how far the nanny state nazis have brought us in 20 years.

I did not live in the sticks 20 years ago. I lived in the suburbs of a major city. Nearly everyone in the check out line at the major supermarkets would light up as they waited their turn.

It was the same at doctors offices, hospital rooms, unless oxygen was being used, and the like. We were not always patrolled and castigated as we are now.....back in the days when America was a free country.