legsdiamond Member since May 05th 2011 79594 posts
Fri Mar-30-18 12:04 PM
"sorry smokers, no smoking in bars is the best thing ever"
I remember the first time we experienced it in NYC. We were there visiting my sister for the Christmas holidays and folks kept leaving the bar and coming back in and we were so confused...
then I looked around to try and observe the atmosphere and realized. No smoke! No smoke!
What the fuck? Where is the smoke?
Best christmas gift ever
Then last year we went to Pittsburgh and got cancer at the bar.
Savages!!!
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legsdiamond Member since May 05th 2011 79594 posts
Fri Mar-30-18 01:02 PM
7. "oh, I've been to more than a few bars with smoke" In response to Reply # 6
shit is THE worst..
that first time tho, when we realized the law changed it was like heaven
no more going home and having to shower or air out your jacket
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35. "Delaware County still trippin" In response to Reply # 26
Went to watch the Flyers in the playoffs a few years ago, and vowed never again. I was literally trying to inhale clean air from a barely open window. It was the worst.
legsdiamond Member since May 05th 2011 79594 posts
Fri Mar-30-18 02:08 PM
13. "from states not named California" In response to Reply # 8
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14. "my dad was a heavy life-long smoker" In response to Reply # 9
when I was a young adult, he busted his foot and ankle hella severely, putting him in a wheelchair, disabling him from moving in and out of our house, which had a few stairs at the door, on his own
legsdiamond Member since May 05th 2011 79594 posts
Fri Mar-30-18 07:51 PM
15. "My dads funeral. We all got together at my aunts house and she smokes" In response to Reply # 14
like a gotdamn chimney. Every time we left a room she followed us with a cigarette. One of those big 3 story houses too... and everyone in Pittsburgh still smokes like it’s the 70’s.
My cousins from DC left to go see some family on the other side of town and we hiked that at least they can get out the smoke and they were like “nope, our aunt smokes hella cigarettes too”
The Pittsburgh region thinks the water and soil run off from the mills is increasing the cancer rate but IMO it’s just parents smoking around their kids.
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19. "Agreed, second hand smoke is a real and dangerous thing." In response to Reply # 0
I occasionally smoke a loosie or three every now and then. Never indoors though, I feel like that's invading other people's private space. Plus it's not a good look trying to pick up non-smoking Women when you smell like an ashtray. Also the likelihood that someone will start a fire in the club/bar has gone way down with smoking bans
I never understood smoking indoors or smoking in the car with the windows rolled up, like even when smoking was considered cool. It's not like you're going to get an extra nicotine buzz by hot boxing a cig. Marijuana on the other hand is different conversation.
There are a few bars / social clubs in Philly that allow cannabis consumption in private rooms. I'll take that all day everyday over sitting in the club with cigarette smoke. Good company, usually good cannabis, good people, and good food. I'd like to see this become more of thing like coffee houses in Amsterdam.
Come, I'll tear up all my poems for just a little piece of you...
23. "Virginia was 2010 might have even been 2012 I think" In response to Reply # 21
And you are allowed to have smoking sections as long as they have a separate ventilation system. I know some bars that would have like a 10x10 no smoking area and the rest of the bar smoking, another has an entire upstairs smoking bar. Smy buddies pool hall has a small ass smoking room that is the worst if there are a lot of people in it. I smoke and I can’t stand smoking bars anymore.
25. "Good lord. That's fucked up." In response to Reply # 23
Some other(s) have already said this in here but I know some *smokers* who don't like smoking indoors. Even they recognize how gross it is to be in that cloud of tar and to stink like that shit wherever they go.
legsdiamond Member since May 05th 2011 79594 posts
Mon Apr-02-18 10:17 AM
31. "it's STILL legal in bars in PA" In response to Reply # 30
it's like stepping back in time when we go home to visit
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legsdiamond Member since May 05th 2011 79594 posts
Sat Mar-31-18 07:43 PM
24. "Mother in law told me about greyhound buses " In response to Reply # 22
I remember when they had ash trays in the arm rest but can’t say I remember anyone smoking.
Then again, back in the day it was so common, maybe. First time I rode a greyhound bus was 91.
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28. "First time I ever flew internationally was in 1990..." In response to Reply # 24
...on Alitalia on a flight to Rome. I still have nightmares.
I also did three years of high school in Switzerland and part of my daily journey to school was on a train. I made the mistake of sitting in the smoking car once. I think I got lung cancer in the ten minutes that I was in there.
33. "and imagine WORKING in a bar/club." In response to Reply # 0
a friend of mine developed throat cancer, and she's pretty sure it came from years of working in a smoke-filled bar.
I did it once a week for 4 years, and I can't describe how awful it was. Clothes, hair, everything you own smelled like smoke for three days. It sucked.
34. "I remember even non-smokers thought it was a terrible idea at first" In response to Reply # 0
People in NYC just thought it would ruin the vibe of bars. Now I am sure no one would even think of going back.
I will say, from a public policy perspective, now that the norm has been so totally shifted to not having smoke in bars and restaurants, I believe it would be okay for cities to going back to allowing smoking in their bars if they want to. Few would probably make the switch back (though I still would have a concern for workers in such bars).
********** "Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson
36. "As a smoker, I only hate it in the winter when it's 4 degrees out" In response to Reply # 0
But I actually really enjoy the camaraderie of a group of people saying, "Hey, wanna step outside?" It's a good way of kickstarting a side conversation, or clearing up some shit that doesn't concern everyone else around you. On the flip side, you can meet some of the most interesting characters at the bar on those trips outside, particularly on a busy night.
Also, there's something to be said about being friends with enough people at the bar on a specific enough night that, once the lights dim, the windows get blacked out and the doors locked, the ashtrays and the cigs come out and it's you and a bunch of employees of the place having it all to yourself while six or seven stragglers smoke their cigarettes outside in the cold waiting for their Lyfts.
38. "i get headaches when I go to Vegas now from the smoke" In response to Reply # 0
this has been in affect in California since 98 or 99. When I go to Vegas I try and sit at smoke free tables and I still have a huge headache by the end of the day. Smoking and non smoking sections in restaurants are just a distant memory for me now.
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