8.14.2007
Outdoor, public cigarette smoking...
What's your view on smoking in outdoor, public seating areas? For example, there's a coffee shop on the corner of Church and Grove in New Haven, and on Grove there is a seating area for the coffee shop patrons, and presumably, anyone that'd like to take a load off. I sit in this seating area during my lunch hour, and, invariably, I'm among at least one, but often more, cigarette smokers. Despite being outdoors, the smoke is bothersome. I never noticed this until recently. Today, a chain-smoking woman finished a cigarette at 12:57, lit another one at 1:03; finished it at 1:08; lit another one at 1:09; finished it at...I couldn't stand to sit in that area any longer. Based on the time between finishing one cigarette and finishing another one--11 minutes--she smokes nearly 6 cigarettes/hour and 96/day OR practically 5 packs/day!
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Smokers can be incredibly inconsiderate. The restaurant ban was one of the best laws ever created. I think the law should be extended to outdoor areas. In urban areas, smokers should be herded into glass boxes (paid for by increasing cigarette taxes) to clam bake.
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