DammitJanet
Well-Known Member
I hate smoking regulations. When I worked, at first I didnt smoke but then in 96 I started smoking again. We had this idiot of a Director who smoked in his office but swore that we couldnt and gave us a smoking room and also said we could go outside. Well about a year later he retired and a new director came in and the first thing he did was come through the building with ashtrays and put them on everyone's desks. LOL. He said if he was going to smoke in his office then it was only fair that we could smoke in ours. I had one of those ashtrays that sucked the smoke down through it to run it through a filter when I was in a room without a window. Most of the time I had a window room.
I live in a state where you still see trucks with bumper stickers that say things about tobacco...like Tobacco bought this truck. We still have tobacco sales here. It used to be one of our king crops but now that is losing out to something else. Kids started picking tobacco as early as 6 and 7. Mine did at age 8. Let me tell you that is long hard work and for very cheap wages.
I thought we would go down fighting to the death for smokers rights. Well NC and VA have done our very best to stave them off. We cant smoke in restaurants in NC or bars. I have no idea how any bar stays open any more. I believe you can get a permit for a private club and have smoking. In both states. I have still found a few restaurants in VA that you can smoke. A few. There are some motels and hotels here and in VA that you can smoke in. Even in OH I found a motel I could smoke in. Its annoying as all get out that in SC that I cant even smoke outside. I am like who in the heck owns the air? Someone needs to take things to court. There is one town in SC that you cant smoke on the beach, smoke in the town at all - not even in your car. I refuse to even go in that town. I used to visit that town but now I refuse to go there. As parts of SC start adopting the same bans, I will start refusing to go to any part of SC. A crying shame.
I live in a state where you still see trucks with bumper stickers that say things about tobacco...like Tobacco bought this truck. We still have tobacco sales here. It used to be one of our king crops but now that is losing out to something else. Kids started picking tobacco as early as 6 and 7. Mine did at age 8. Let me tell you that is long hard work and for very cheap wages.
I thought we would go down fighting to the death for smokers rights. Well NC and VA have done our very best to stave them off. We cant smoke in restaurants in NC or bars. I have no idea how any bar stays open any more. I believe you can get a permit for a private club and have smoking. In both states. I have still found a few restaurants in VA that you can smoke. A few. There are some motels and hotels here and in VA that you can smoke in. Even in OH I found a motel I could smoke in. Its annoying as all get out that in SC that I cant even smoke outside. I am like who in the heck owns the air? Someone needs to take things to court. There is one town in SC that you cant smoke on the beach, smoke in the town at all - not even in your car. I refuse to even go in that town. I used to visit that town but now I refuse to go there. As parts of SC start adopting the same bans, I will start refusing to go to any part of SC. A crying shame.