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LETTER: Walker: A double standard on smoking 

Jump to full article: Morganton (NC) News Herald, 2010-01-19
Author: Greg Walker

Intro:

So the new law that banned smoking in restaurants and bars is going to help me to be able to kick the habit.

Now if we could only convince more convenient stores to do the same and stop smoking in their establishment.

It's like this one convenient store that I know of that is about five miles down U.S. 64 past Wal-Mart and close to Denton's Chapel Church.

I think he has a double standard on smoking because he thinks that it is alright for him and his employees to smoke cigarettes in the store while the customers and their children visit his establishment but it is not alright for the customers to be smoking while his child is at his store.

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