Several years ago, legislation started banning smoking inside of restaurants.
There was a huge uproar from smokers everywhere..."Why can't we just keep our smoking section?! You're discriminating against smokers!" etc etc.
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| The Smoker Tube inside a restaurant in Austria |
The Smokers' Tube (I made this name up) caught me off guard when I first saw it in a restaurant in Austria this past summer. Who in their right mind would be desperate enough to go inside of a clear tube in the middle of a restaurant to have a cigarette?
Much to my disbelief as I sat at my table and carefully examined the smoker tube, two guys went in together and had a cigarette at the small table inside the tube while the rest of the customers at the restaurant watched them like specimens.
So smoking people....what's worse? Having to go outside in the wide open air to have a cigarette OR stepping inside a clear plastic tube within a restaurant?
The Tube itself was also extremely distracting...I couldn't even focus on my food because I was too busy counting how many people went inside the tube.
I must say, watching the smoke cloud grow within the Tube as the customers stood inside was enough to make me never want to smoke in my entire life.
How about you: what do you prefer? No smoking or the Smoking Tube?
