Jump to full article: St. John's (Nfl) Telegram (ca), 2009-06-13
Intro: Not long after the provincial government banned smoking in bars, a Telegram editor was talking to a St. John's bartender about just how bad it must have been to work in a constant cloud of cigarette smoke.
The bartender said he and other staff had constant headaches and coughs and didn't realize how bad the air was until they decided to redecorate and move the bar's pictures around one day.
"... We took the first picture down and realized the wallpaper used to be white."
Where it hadn't been covered, the wall was brown.
Thursday, the U.S. Senate passed legislation that one day may have others looking back and thinking about just how bad things used to be. . . .
That's not to say this province hasn't made any strides when it comes to getting people to butt out. The provincial government's efforts to remove display advertising "power walls" was a good start, even though we were the last province in the country to take that step.
But there are aspects of the American changes that are well worth watching.
It will be interesting to see what the FDA can do, and whether the new oversights will put another nail in the coffin of the "coffin-nail" industry.
Sometimes, keeping up with the Joneses is not such a bad idea.
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