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re: When restaurants allowed smoking.
Posted on 8/24/21 at 10:34 am to SouthernStyled
Posted on 8/24/21 at 10:34 am to SouthernStyled
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It's crazy what we tolerated for so long, "just because"
It’s crazy that what was tolerated for so long? Restaurants had non-smoking sections and it was a non-issue. I flew back then and I can’t remember a single time where it was an issue.
Second hand smoke risks were reported like COVID risks. I’m not a smoker but it was a witch-hunt. I hate going to a seafood restaurant and leave smelling like fried seafood. Now what?
Go put on your mask “just because.”
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Posted on 8/24/21 at 10:34 am to fr33manator
Don Juan's doesn't do tobacco?
Posted on 8/24/21 at 10:34 am to TigerGman
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I used to bus and wait tables at a real high end restaurant. We';d keep an eye out on the smokers and try to be Johnny on the spot to light their cancer sticks before they could. Made fist fulls of tips doing that. Nobody gave it a second thought cause people smoked everywhere back then.
The lost art of the "proper" way to switch out an ashtray in fine dining. Certainly, you know it.
Posted on 8/24/21 at 10:35 am to fr33manator
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That’s your right, but not even a classy cigar bar or a tobacconist?
Nope. Can't stand the smell of smoke in any form. I'll just wave at you smoking a nice stogie as I walk by though, enjoying the fact you and the private business have a right to do so.
Posted on 8/24/21 at 10:35 am to UndercoverBryologist
I've been to 2 restaurants lately that still had smoking sections and I was shocked they still exist. Also, I fricking left because regardless of where the section is, that whole place still smelled like an ashtray.
Posted on 8/24/21 at 10:36 am to UndercoverBryologist
The thought is nostalgic but I don’t think I would want to go back to that.
I just don’t understand why someone would want to smoke while they eat? Like it’s another side item or something.. How can you enjoy your food when your mouth tastes like tobacco?
I can understand at a bar where you’re just sipping a drink. Or walking on a college campus or at a mall. But while eating?
I just don’t understand why someone would want to smoke while they eat? Like it’s another side item or something.. How can you enjoy your food when your mouth tastes like tobacco?
I can understand at a bar where you’re just sipping a drink. Or walking on a college campus or at a mall. But while eating?
Posted on 8/24/21 at 10:39 am to Centinel
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It's not the government's job to ban smoking in private businesses.
I'm more OK with the ordinance coming from the city/parish level. I don't like the federal government mandating anything. I'm more ok with a city because i can just leave
Posted on 8/24/21 at 10:40 am to bayouvette
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It really wasn't that long ago that people were still smoking on planes.
My first job was a grocery store sacking groceries, and people would walk the aisles smoking. We had ashcans at the end of several aisles. I was there when the store banned it inside the store and it was always fun informing someone of the new rule. Most people were cooperative and apologetic, but some would let their Karen out.
Posted on 8/24/21 at 10:40 am to baytiger11
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How can you enjoy your food when your mouth tastes like tobacco
Most smokers have killed their tastebuds to the point all they can taste is cigarettes and coffee.
Posted on 8/24/21 at 10:43 am to Loup
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I'm more OK with the ordinance coming from the city/parish level. I don't like the federal government mandating anything. I'm more ok with a city because i can just leave
It's well established in the jurisprudence of American federalism that states have a lot of power to enact and regulate public health and medical measures, and the federal government has very little.*
States like Massachusetts were mandating the smallpox vaccine as early as 1810.
*I'm not quite sure how this jibes with Roe vs. Wade, but I don't want to open up that can of worms.
This post was edited on 8/24/21 at 10:44 am
Posted on 8/24/21 at 10:43 am to jflsufan
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It really wasn't that long ago that people were still smoking on planes.
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and hospitals
I find it odd how many doctors and nurses are outside taking a smoke break.
Posted on 8/24/21 at 10:46 am to TheArrogantCorndog
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"Table for 3, non-smoking"
I always wondered how the smoke was smart enough to stay in the smoking section and not wander off into the non-smoking area.
Posted on 8/24/21 at 10:46 am to UndercoverBryologist
I was in a restaurant in Mississippi like 3-4 years ago that had a smoking section
Posted on 8/24/21 at 10:47 am to UndercoverBryologist
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When restaurants allowed smoking
Life was unquestionably better overall than today.
Posted on 8/24/21 at 10:50 am to LSUGrad9295
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I always wondered how the smoke was smart enough to stay in the smoking section and not wander off into the non-smoking area.
The same way Covid is smart enough to not attack you while you're eating, but will pounce if you get up and walk to the bathroom without a mask.
This post was edited on 8/24/21 at 10:51 am
Posted on 8/24/21 at 10:51 am to UndercoverBryologist
"a non-smoking section in a restaurant is like a non-peeing section in a public pool"
Posted on 8/24/21 at 10:52 am to Centinel
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The same way Covid is smart enough to not attack you while you're eating
Or when shopping at corporate monster stores who were politically favored, while your neighbor lost his business and house. Covid is even scared of the Wal Mart/Amazon Lobbyists is all I can think.
Posted on 8/24/21 at 10:55 am to UndercoverBryologist
It was a great day going to Crown & Anchor and not smelling like an ashtray afterwards.
My Dad grew up in house connected to a bar my Grandpa ran, so he grew up with smoky bars. Luckily for me, that made him hate it, so when he used to drag me around to the bars when I was younger, they were always ones with a proper hood system or ventilation.
My Dad grew up in house connected to a bar my Grandpa ran, so he grew up with smoky bars. Luckily for me, that made him hate it, so when he used to drag me around to the bars when I was younger, they were always ones with a proper hood system or ventilation.
Posted on 8/24/21 at 10:57 am to UndercoverBryologist
I was thrilled when they went 100% non-smoking. I've always thought everything about it was nasty and smelled horrible in addition to making me sneeze. I cannot think of a single time that I liked smoking and I grew up when it was everywhere, when there were no non-smoking sections anywhere and most people smoked. (60's and 70's)
Posted on 8/24/21 at 10:58 am to SouthernStyled
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It's crazy what we tolerated for so long, "just because"
Just because what? Just because customers wanted to do it and businesses wanted to allow them to do it? I am not a smoker and cannot stand the smell, but if a business wants to allow customers to smoke then I don’t see an issue with allowing it. I think the market should determine whether businesses that allow smoking can survive or thrive, not big brother.
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