Lighters Banned on Airplanes
Starting today, April 14, 2005, cigarette lighters will no longer be allowed inside the passenger compartment of airplanes. What I didn't know was that it's always been illegal to put cigarette lighters in checked luggage.
I guess the Zippo that Kamila gave me for Christmas 2002 will be staying in Europe. Zippo Manufacturing, of course, objects to the new ban.
I may have to finally quit smoking. Hennepin county, the county in which Maple Grove, MN, sits (and the whole of Minneapolis), banned smoking in all restaurants and bars on March 31, 2005.
I just can't get used to the idea that diners will no longer be a place for coffee & cigarettes.
2 Comments:
That's a wonderfull news. Unfortunatelly not for someone like me who lives in Prague and when at lunch gets intoxicated by a next table person eating and smoking at the same time. And it is common scene in most of the places down here in Prague!!! Good for you guys. 2 thumbs up for such healthy legislation;
I can't say I think it's a good idea to limit the choices people have when it comes to smoking in bars. I can accept a non-smoking policy in restaurants.
If there was so much demand for non-smoking bars, why didn't any exist before the smoking ban? Economic theory would tell us that that demand would have been met by supply, but that didn't happen.
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