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Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Au Revoir, Smoky Parisian Cafés

posted by on December 18 at 13:00 PM

Stranger 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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1

— Ok, I'll go visit now... that's all that kept me from that rad lil' place!

Posted by aaron Edge | December 18, 2007 1:14 PM
2

pics broke.

But way cool news! I love Paris!

Posted by Will in Seattle | December 18, 2007 1:33 PM
3

hilarious.

the only thing an american can afford to do in paris is smoke.

Posted by max solomon | December 18, 2007 1:54 PM
4

The indoor smoking ban is great. I can finally go bowling at the ghettofabulous Kenmore Lanes again.

Posted by Greg | December 18, 2007 1:58 PM
5

Fucking Nazis.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty | December 18, 2007 2:02 PM
6

fuck you, paris. i'll go to amsterdam or berlin instead.

Posted by JACKSON POLLOCK | December 18, 2007 2:03 PM
7

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.

Posted by Cale | December 18, 2007 2:17 PM
8

HAH! The video blames a pro-American and pro-fitness presidnet.

Posted by Lake | December 18, 2007 3:42 PM
9

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.

Posted by Sargon Bighorn | December 18, 2007 4:00 PM

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