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2016.01.29

Recently, when I went for late lunch at my favorite coffee shop, a man next to my table began to smoke and I was disappointed.
Because I used to believe that this coffee shop was non-smoking place.
Had I been just lucky until then?
There was no indication that this place sets smoking time and nonsmoking time.
I still find restaurants and eating houses difficult to find whether they are smoking places or nonsmoking places.
Even some places appealing separation of smoking areas, there is no partition between smoking seats and nonsmoking seats and no different than smoking places virtually.
Of course, smoking rules are up to each place, but they should indicate clearly .

It's a shame as a developed nation that our country is called smoker's heaven, but this is reality.

I have suspected that some people from countries with strict smoking rules might be looking forward to enjoy smoking with ease.
Even so, NOT like decades years ago , now no one says that you can smoke in your own sweet way everywhere.
I'd like to take this occasion to ask smokers from abroad to understand the reality:
Gradually more and more public spaces are smoke-free,
And there are places where you are fined if you are smoking.
If you don't understand this and get fined, it's what you brought upon yourself , confusing "smoke-free" and "smoke freely".
Besides, nonsmoking rule is going to be tighten toward upcoming Olympic game.

-Anyway... At the same time, there is an advantage of smokers:
No matter how I emphasize that smoking is harmful and annoying and dangerous,
To smokers with no intention to stop, it could sound like a fussy scolding .
ex-smokers who stopped smoking can have points of view as both smokers and non-smokers .
It seems that many of them realize how they wasted time and money, and how they troubled other people with smell and smoke itself, and how smokers are disadvantaged now.
Then if they advocate how smoking is suicidal with no good and only harm, it's more persuasive.

Just when I decided the draft of manuscript, there was a fuming case at a subway station,
And the origin turned out to be a cigarette butt.
Throwing away cigarette butts is no better than arson

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