Then one loses a beverage holder, and they’re not in the right spot. When you treat people like second class citizens don’t be surprised if they don’t worry about your feelings. There was a nice state of detente between non-smokers and smokers in the 90s, plenty of places were non-smoking but plenty of places allowed smoking, ashtrays were conveniently placed so smokers had someplace to put the butts that wasn’t a fire hazard or littering. But it wasn’t good enough for the non-smokers. They wanted more places non-smoking, they felt ashtrays in public places “invited” smoking, they hated the cloud at the door. Well now they’ve got the world they wanted, smoking is pretty much not allowed anywhere, ashtrays are with payphones on the ash-heap of history, nobody can smoke near doors, and they’re still not happy. Maybe if they had a butt once in a while they’d relax.
When people act like gutter, they tend to get treated like gutter.
The antis said there would be a great surge in business if smoking were banned in Michigan bars. Instead there was a 20 to 30 percent drop in business.
What really frosts me is the fact that the clowns who wanted non smoking bars didn’t even bother to open non smoking bars as was their right. Instead they chose the scumbag route of using the power of government to do what they didn’t have the ass to do on their own.
Also typically cars that had one beverage holder for the driver’s position will now have two. One on the door and one by the dash. Putting a non combustible vessel in one of them should be a matter of simple consideration.