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Kentucky looks to have about the loosest rules on smoking. It's allowed in child care centers, health facilities, and restaurants according to the following.
LOL you reminded me of a trip we took in 2004 when we stopped for lunch at a KY Arby's. The place was full of smokers and the tables and trashbins were festooned with butt-laden ashtrays. Gross! Even the employees on break were sitting out in the dining area firing up.
LOL you reminded me of a trip we took in 2004 when we stopped for lunch at a KY Arby's. The place was full of smokers and the tables and trashbins were festooned with butt-laden ashtrays. Gross! Even the employees on break were sitting out in the dining area firing up.
it's so funny how times have changed (in this case, for the better IMHO). 30 years ago no one (myself included - I grew up in a 5 pack a day house) would've blinked an eye!
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it's so funny how times have changed (in this case, for the better IMHO). 30 years ago no one (myself included - I grew up in a 5 pack a day house) would've blinked an eye!
So true! I'm my 30s, but I am old enough to remember this. It's one of the first things I noticed when I was kid whenever we went to a restaurant to eat. Another thing is just how MANY people smoked...like basically everyone from time to time. I even remember how my pediatrician would smoke a pipe, and hack up huge wads of flem, while examining me.
LOL you reminded me of a trip we took in 2004 when we stopped for lunch at a KY Arby's. The place was full of smokers and the tables and trashbins were festooned with butt-laden ashtrays. Gross! Even the employees on break were sitting out in the dining area firing up.
yea, unfortunately that results in this:
way too many people in kentucky smoke, but even so most cities over 50,000 have a restaurant smoking ban. even so, because there are so many other smokers id still say most kentucky cities would place into the "best" cities for smokers, i think tennessee could fall in there too, just based off of the fact that a lot of people there smoke too.
Aside from Charlotte, I've noticed most North Carolina cities/towns aren't so big on banning smoking in restaurants and such. I was actually kind of surprised on my last trip there as it is pretty rare to find a place that still allows that in businesses that aren't bars.
Smoking is banned virtually everywhere in Charlotte and is extremely stigmatized. I quit smoking for this reason but would start back in a heartbeat if I lived somewhere where you aren't looked at as a second class citizen because you smoke. I assumed it has become this way virtually everywhere.
Yes, I know its bad for me but its just something I enjoy doing and should have that right.
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It's crazy how much smoking has changed from the late 1990's until now.
Now I walk around Chicago and you can't smoke anywhere, ciggs are $8-$10 a pack in the city, and people will many times look at you like you just punched a baby in the mouth if you light up in a group of random people.
It has become this way in Charlotte as well, except cigs are approaching $5-6/pack. Its social suicide to light up at a bar or restaurant, even if its outside. In Sept 2009, when I moved to Charlotte, you could get a pack of Marlboro Lights for $3.40/pack. Not anymore.
The only place where I actually noticed a lot of 20-something smokers was Kansas City, MO. These were outdoor areas in the summer, but I was especially surprised to see that age group smoking so much.
Although I guess I'm "soft on smoking" or sympathetic to smokers, it does bug me when people my age (33) and younger smoke. We knew better and should never have started.
I do feel bad for those over 60 as it was a different age when they got addicted. I mean they knew it was bad then, but they didn't understand how bad and it was like what everyone did. Maybe I feel a bit bad in general because I don't think we treat other addictions like we do smoking. Even with something like heroin I feel we're almost more likely to go for sympathy and rehab. Smokers are just "bad people" we can soak money from, in taxes, no matter how poor they are.
way too many people in kentucky smoke, but even so most cities over 50,000 have a restaurant smoking ban. even so, because there are so many other smokers id still say most kentucky cities would place into the "best" cities for smokers, i think tennessee could fall in there too, just based off of the fact that a lot of people there smoke too.
Very interesting map of where lung cancer is worst in the U.S. I expected that the South would have the most deaths related to tobacco use but was surprised by a few other areas including the state of Maine and a section of the coastline of northern California and Oregon.
Smoking is banned virtually everywhere in Charlotte and is extremely stigmatized. I quit smoking for this reason but would start back in a heartbeat if I lived somewhere where you aren't looked at as a second class citizen because you smoke. I assumed it has become this way virtually everywhere.
Yes, I know its bad for me but its just something I enjoy doing and should have that right.
It has become this way in Charlotte as well, except cigs are approaching $5-6/pack. Its social suicide to light up at a bar or restaurant, even if its outside. In Sept 2009, when I moved to Charlotte, you could get a pack of Marlboro Lights for $3.40/pack. Not anymore.
yes, call me mother hen or any other name, but trust me, you'll be thankful in 30 years that these rules were in place. i GUARANTEE it. GUARAN,EFFING,TEE.
There is NO ONE today with lung cancer or emphysema who would say "gee, i wish the smoking rules were more lax".
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