A lot of places in the U.S. have gone smoke free in recent years. Florida is a clean indoor air state, so you can’t smoke in any buildings, like the airport, or the mall. You can’t smoke in restaurants, but you can smoke in bars. Or, you can sit outside at a restaurant and smoke, as we discovered the other day when we ate on the deck at Hooters.
The smoking ban is catching on in the U.K. as well. www.nosmokinglaw.co.uk is a smoking law resource site that provides infomation on the smoking ban in England, Wales, Ireland, and Scotland. When I went to the U.K. several years ago, I was astonished at how many people were smokers. It seemed really prevalent, no matter where we went. I’m happy that one of my favorite counties is working on getting it’s residents to be a bit more healthy. Even if people are still smoking like chimneys, at least it’s being confined to smoking shelters with cigarette bins, and they aren’t puffing away in public places any longer.
