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re: When restaurants allowed smoking.
Posted on 8/24/21 at 11:01 am to Y.A. Tittle
Posted on 8/24/21 at 11:01 am to Y.A. Tittle
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The lost art of the "proper" way to switch out an ashtray in fine dining. Certainly, you know it.
You betcha. Also how to crumb a table and keep it nice and clean
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Posted on 8/24/21 at 11:02 am to UndercoverBryologist
I live and work in Winston-Salem. Until recently RJ Reynolds allowed smoking in their headquarters (a 16 story building). You would see employees smoking at their cubicles at the computer and during meetings everyone would have their cigarette packs sitting on the conference table. They have a circulation system that literally sucks everything out of the top of the building.
Back in the 80s you also could smoke in malls and department stores.
Back in the 80s you also could smoke in malls and department stores.
This post was edited on 8/24/21 at 11:03 am
Posted on 8/24/21 at 11:16 am to BobABooey
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I flew back then and I can’t remember a single time where it was an issue.
I flew a lot in the 90's and if it was a longer (over 2 hour) flight, unless you were sitting near the front, it was smoky. Going to the restroom was like going thru a fog. It sucked!
Posted on 8/24/21 at 11:21 am to LaLadyinTx
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I flew a lot in the 90's and if it was a longer (over 2 hour) flight, unless you were sitting near the front, it was smoky.
Pretty impressive since smoking was banned on US commercial flights in February 1990! Some airlines banned it prior to that.
Posted on 8/24/21 at 11:21 am to UndercoverBryologist
When I was in college you could smoke in class if it was okay with the professor, which was about half of them.
Posted on 8/24/21 at 11:26 am to BobABooey
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I flew a lot in the 90's and if it was a longer (over 2 hour) flight, unless you were sitting near the front, it was smoky.
Pretty impressive since smoking was banned on US commercial flights in February 1990! Some airlines banned it prior to that.
So I'm off by a few years. I flew a lot between 1989 and 1996. I just googled the years. Almost all my flights were DFW-various California cities, so all longer than 2 hours. It was about a year that I flew with smoking. It seemed like forever!!! It was awful and all my coworkers hated it as well. No way the smoke stays at the back of the plane.
Posted on 8/24/21 at 11:30 am to UndercoverBryologist
Local bar I go to is non smoking.... before the ban if you were a non smoker and stayed in the bar for a couple hours you would get a secondary high from all the smoke in the air. Now I can go grab a drink and dont come out smelling like an ash tray, it's quite nice.
Posted on 8/24/21 at 11:59 am to CHEDBALLZ
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Now I can go grab a drink and dont come out smelling like an ash tray, it's quite nice.
Even the places that smoking isn’t banned, I’ve found that everyone is just vaping anyways. I know we like to make fun of people who do it or whatever, but vaping was a huge win for everyone who didn’t smoke.
Posted on 8/24/21 at 12:02 pm to thermal9221
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You could smoke in McDonald’s lol.
In Amsterdam they have a no smoking section, a smoking section, and a pot smoking section
Posted on 8/24/21 at 12:15 pm to Sput
Years ago I was out with a broad in Knoxville and she got concerned when I got up and acted like I was leaving. She asked what I was doing and when I said going to have a smoke she laughed and grabbed a tray off the next table.
WI had banned it a few years before so it was just habit.
WI had banned it a few years before so it was just habit.
Posted on 8/24/21 at 12:17 pm to UndercoverBryologist
Cigarettes are fricking disgusting.
Posted on 8/24/21 at 12:17 pm to SouthernStyled
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It's crazy what we tolerated for so long, "just because"
Now put on your mask and go get your jab.
Posted on 8/24/21 at 12:40 pm to UndercoverBryologist
That map shows why the southeast is the only place in the US left that resembles the old America that actually has freedoms
I know 2 restaurants here that still have smoking sections.
I know 2 restaurants here that still have smoking sections.
Posted on 8/24/21 at 12:44 pm to UndercoverBryologist
I was watching that SEC football documentary the other day and it showed the coaches smoking on the sidelines.
Posted on 8/24/21 at 12:45 pm to UndercoverBryologist
it was normal when I was growing up. It was funny that the non smoking section wasn't really separate from the smoking section. People are just pussies now
Posted on 8/24/21 at 12:50 pm to UndercoverBryologist
I disagree with any law that bans legal activity in a place only frequented by adults, such as bars and casinos.
Even with restaurants, I'll go with the free market over fiat.
In any of those cases, I'd prefer non-smoking and those private businesses that chose to ban it in their establishments would be more likely to have my business.
But to answer the question about smells- I didnt realize how awful the smoke permeated your skin, hair and clothing when going into smoky bars. Much prefer not having it.
That said, in my twenties and early thirties, the best places to have fun were also the smokiest. It was just a small sacrifice to pay for some very fun, barely remembered years of debauchery.
Even with restaurants, I'll go with the free market over fiat.
In any of those cases, I'd prefer non-smoking and those private businesses that chose to ban it in their establishments would be more likely to have my business.
But to answer the question about smells- I didnt realize how awful the smoke permeated your skin, hair and clothing when going into smoky bars. Much prefer not having it.
That said, in my twenties and early thirties, the best places to have fun were also the smokiest. It was just a small sacrifice to pay for some very fun, barely remembered years of debauchery.
Posted on 8/24/21 at 12:52 pm to UndercoverBryologist
I have to admit. Idaho is surprising.
Posted on 8/24/21 at 12:54 pm to bayouvette
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really wasn't that long ago that people were still smoking on planes.
Early 80’s?
I just remember the plane that crashed in the Potomac River then. Only survivors were smokers I believe. Tail of the plane.
Posted on 8/24/21 at 12:56 pm to bayouvette
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It really wasn't that long ago that people were still smoking on planes.
Yep. One of my first flights ever it was allowed. Mom put us in the non-smoking section - our seats were in the last row before the smoking section started which was same as being in it
Posted on 8/24/21 at 12:59 pm to fightin tigers
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Going somewhere in JP or St Bernard and dealing with thw cigarette smoke is just fricking horrible.
I am not saying all bars have no smoking in JP. But since Covid and some bars getting the restaurant license to operate during Covid they had to move to no smoking.. The ones I have been to have been no smoking..
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