Life Au Revoir, Smoky Parisian Cafés
posted by December 18 at 13:00 PM
onStranger contributor Jon Frosch has an interesting article, and a cool video, up on the International Herald Tribune’s web site today. From Paris, Frosch writes about the angst that is accompanying this news:
Less than one year after France imposed a nationwide ban on smoking in most public places (including hospitals, schools and offices), it will extend the ban to bars, restaurants, hotels, nightclubs - and the most cherished of all spaces: the café.
The Parisian angst will sound very familiar to veterans of Seattle’s smoking ban wars—but with a better sound-track and a few more platters of cheese and bowls of onion soup in the background:
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— Ok, I'll go visit now... that's all that kept me from that rad lil' place!
pics broke.
But way cool news! I love Paris!
hilarious.
the only thing an american can afford to do in paris is smoke.
The indoor smoking ban is great. I can finally go bowling at the ghettofabulous Kenmore Lanes again.
Fucking Nazis.
fuck you, paris. i'll go to amsterdam or berlin instead.
yet their 24 hour eating establishments will stay open due to 24 hour drinking establishments.
im gonna fucking punch the washington state liquor board in the face.
HAH! The video blames a pro-American and pro-fitness presidnet.
Dam New World plant! See what hell these American savages have wrought on the world by trading tabacco for blue-beads. The French are hooked and can't give it up.
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