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October 08, 2006
You Know the World Has Changed Around You...
When Paris Bans Smoking in public places. Which it will, starting on 2/1/2007. And less than a year after that, the ban will be widened to include n bars, restaurants, hotels and discotheques.
I've never been a cigarette smoker, but when I lived in Paris, I certainly lit up on occasion with my European friends in cafes and bars, for the atmospherics.
I told my mom about that once. She and my dad had both been heavy smokers back in the day, and quitting caused each of them a lot of travail. So she overreacted when I mentioned it, assuming that the occasional cigarette in a cafe in Paris would turn me into a three pack a day smoker in no time flat. But smoking never held that kind of appeal for me. I was in no danger at all.
I'm trying to come up with a category for this post.
I suppose, very broadly, banning smoking could fall under tikkun olam.
Alcibiades | 10/08/06 at 08:55 PM | Categories: Tikkun olam
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No. Frickin. Way. Are pigs flying somewhere? I thought Paris would ban walking little toy dogs on public sidewalks before the French ever banned public smoking.
Fern R | October 8, 2006 10:53 PM
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