Joe90 wrote:
...to smoke in public but not bite your nails in public? A lot of smokers smoke when stressed or even nervous, and also it is a stupid, repulsive habit. But people don't judge smokers as they go by (considering they're smoking in a designated area). But when I was younger I was often told not to bite my nails in public because it makes me look nervous and also it's a bad habit and people will look.
So how come smoking is OK but biting one's nails isn't?
US states have been banning public smoking, California being the first and other states followed. I remember when Montana outlawed it in 2006 and my work got rid of their smoking rooms and the casino there shut down because they made less money since people could no longer smoke. Then Oregon outlawed in in 2009 I think and they got rid of their smoking room and made it all one room. People are not allowed to smoke within ten feet to the building so basically people can't smoke anywhere in public and they would have to do it in a park or parking lot. Some places do have a smoking area of course like the airport.
When I was a kid, restaurants had smoking areas and hotels had smoking rooms but other places still didn't allow smoking and neither did fast food restaurants. But there was no public smoking bans where people could stand right out the door and smoke or stand right by a building to smoke.
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