No-longer-so-smoky barbecue
From the state Department of Health and Human Services comes notice that on Wednesday, April 2, four more barbecue restaurants in Lexington, which promotes itself as the World Capital of Barbecue, are going smoke-free in observance of Kick Butts Day.
The four are John Wayne's Barbecue, Smokey Joe's Barbecue, the Barbeque House and Whitley's Restaurant. They join several other restaurants that went smoke-free earlier: Backcountry BBQ, The Barbecue Center, Lexington Barbecue and Henry James Family Dining.
To answer a question no one has asked yet, the restaurants will still be using hickory smoke to make their barbecue. So far as I know, any link between hickory smoke and cancer remains unproven. [insert rim shot here]
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High praise to all those eateries which no longer allow cigarette smoking - having a smoking section in a restaurant makes about as much sense as having a urinating section in a swimming pool. Cigarette users are nothing more than foul smelling druggies with bad breath who lack common sense, will power, and personal discipline. There is little difference between tobacco farmers and Latin American growers of the plant (coca) from which cocaine is derived - both prey on human weaknesses and make significant contributions to ill health and early deaths - cigarette sellers and marketers are actually nothing more than drug pushers. Every time I see someone using one of those personal portable oxygen tanks with the little plastic tubes running up their nose I approach them ever so politely and ask if they have a cigarette I can bum.
Posted on April 1, 2008 3:50 PM
Every time I see someone using one of those personal portable oxygen tanks with the little plastic tubes running up their nose I approach them ever so politely and ask if they have a cigarette I can bum.
Holden, assuming this isn't an April Fool's joke of a comment, that seems pretty harsh. First, not everyone on oxygen is/was a smoker. Second, although beginning to smoke ultimately is an act of free will, I wouldn't underestimate the power of the tobacco companies' marketing, particularly to impressionable minors, as a strong causal factor. (The companies certainly don't, or else they wouldn't be spending so much money on that marketing.)
Posted on April 1, 2008 3:56 PM