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Smoking Ban Update

I woke up this morning and counted the cigarettes in last night's fresh pack: 15.  So I'm holding my resolve - although, tonight will be the real test.  I went out last night, and just as I thought, the bar fucking smelled like shit.  I'm telling you, people, that smoke smell was doing you a favor.  Non-smokey bars smell like stale beer, puke, and dirty mop water.  Going outside to smoke wasn't so bad because it's warm out, but if/when it get's colder, that's going to suck salty balls.  It did feel a bit like high school, though, when all the cool kids would step a few feet off campus to smoke.  I can see this being a good way to pick up girls.  You've got an instant opener: "Man this smoking ban sucks, doesn't it?"  Anyway, we're not really going to see the mayhem this is going to cause until the summer.  It will be a shit show.

Oh, and I still smoked in the bar.  I just waited until after it closed.

Posted on Friday, January 5, 2007 by Registered CommenterRCR | Comments6 Comments | References3 References

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Reader Comments (6)

Don't worry it's not going to get cold
Jan 5, 2007 at 02:25PM | Unregistered CommenterGlobal Warming
The only thing worse than dirty mop water stench is the urine stench that it's covering up.
Jan 5, 2007 at 03:28PM | Unregistered CommenterKbee
Yeah. This totally rocks. I can nearly feel an entire city of Bartender-lungs getting pinker, and more unemployed.
Jan 5, 2007 at 03:41PM | Unregistered CommenterAUA
I was in a bar in San Francisco once and there was a fishbowl full of money behind the bar. This was NOT the bartender's tips mind you, but a collection soley intended to pay the fine if they were caught allowing patrons to smoke! It was the coolest thing, lighting up inside when it was against the law...

I wonder if that'll happen in DC...here in Chicago, the smoke ban doesn't go into effect until July '08 and even then there are loopholes...
Jan 5, 2007 at 04:18PM | Unregistered CommenterChicagoJen
I've definitely smoked in bars in SF
Jan 5, 2007 at 04:34PM | Registered CommenterRCR
I was in Manhattan when the ban went into effect and it created this whole sidewalk scene that was just good times. I got a feeling the same thing could happen here over the weekend. That said, it still blows and every bar I went to smelled awful. I'm convinced the main beneficiaries of the ban are carpet salesmen.
Jan 8, 2007 at 10:47AM | Unregistered Commentermax

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