Let me be the first to thank the legislature for driving the smokers out of the bars and onto the public sidewalks here in Graham, NC. While my wife and I were walking tonight, we turned the corner at the courthouse on Elm St. and headed up Maple St. Just around the corner there is a bar where nine patrons are clogging the sidewalk outside the door, smoking. So what do we have to walk through before we even realize what is happening? That’s right; the smoke the government wanted to protect us from. It wasn’t bothering me a bit when it was in the bar.
I don’t understand. Everybody in there is likely smoking anyway. And if they don’t want to be around smokers, they wouldn’t go in the bar to begin with. We, however, are outside on the public sidewalk, trying to be healthy. Who suffers? The cigarette smokers? No. Us.
Come on, North Carolina. I understand what were trying to do. But guess what? You failed.