Posted on 04/29/2020 9:21:21 AM PDT by seastay
Restaurants have changed in more than a few ways over the past 50 years. But the biggest shift, the one that has fundamentally changed what it’s like to eat in a restaurant or spend time in a bar, might be the switch to smoke-free dining rooms — These days, being asked to choose “smoking or non smoking” is something of a novelty. The transition to smoke-free bars and restaurants began with the rise of the anti-smoking movement in the 1960s as the dangers of cigarettes became clear and advocates argued on behalf of restaurant and bar employees, who had no choice as to whether or not they would be inhaling secondhand smoke. In 1975, Minnesota enacted the Minnesota Clean Indoor Air Act, becoming the first state to limit smoking in most public spaces, and in the late 1990s and early 2000s state-enforced smoking restrictions ramped up, expanding to include bans on smoking indoors in most states and even parks and public plazas in some.
But although some of us may rejoice at the prospect of never again encountering unwanted second-hand smoke, Jacob Grier, a Portland, Oregon-based writer who covers smoking, vaping, and tobacco policy, believes smoking bans have gone too far.
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I did.
We have two restaurants that I know of that still have cigarette machines in them. Also one you can smoke in but only when the flaps are up.
Port Salerno, FL (the pocket)
If the food and/or service was exceptional, I’d be willing to tolerate a little smoke esp if it’s well ventilated if my clothes don’t stink too much
Not everyone who smokes is a loser but almost every loser is a smoker. Same with tattoos.
“So I quit...”
Quit smoking, or quit your job?
“Smokers in restaurants suck.”
Definitely. And thank Heaven flights are no smoking.
“It is a common element among the lower classes and poor people to have tattoos.”
I think it’s ironic that the poor people are covered with gross tattoos. Aren’t tattoos expensive? Why not buy food, or take that car off the cinder blocks in the yard?
“I guess choice is/was too much of stretch for the antis....they want it all.”
Really. Because smoke is sentient and understands which way to waft, i.e., AWAY from the “antis”. Call me crazy, but I don’t think cigarette smoke can read a “no smoking” sign. If there’s smoke, EVERYONE is exposed.
Quit smoking...
“Quit smoking...”
That’s what I thought. Then it seemed it could be taken both ways.
Are you one of those who panics if someone lights up 100 yards up the beach?
“Are you one of those who panics if someone lights up 100 yards up the beach?”
Outdoors I don’t give a crap. Smoke cigarettes. Smoke weed. Fart. Whatever.
> It is a common element among the lower classes and poor people to have tattoos.
I was watching “Live PD”, one of the reality COP shows.
I was surprised that a very high percentage of the officers have full tattoo sleeves.
Now if only we could do it with stinky, noisy children.
Okay, a joke, sort of.
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