When I first moved to Louisville, I used to say one of two things I didn't like was all the smoking. I've told some of you the story of going in during my apartment-hunting visit to one of my favorite restaurant and asking them where the non-smoking section was, and the reply: "Honey, it's ALL smoking." A tobacco company was even headquartered in Louisville, and the DOWNSTAIRS LOBBY of its downtown office building was the smoking section. Roughly a quarter of KY and IN pregnant women smoke through the pregancies, I was also told. Well, smoking rates are still high but smoking in public building, including bars, is a thing of the past, both in Louisville and across the river in Jeffersonville, IN (though they seemed to be ignoring that at the bingo hall 1 1/2 years ago, and neighboring Clarksville, IN rejected a ban). This Tuesday the City Council in the town where Stephanie teaches - a council now presided over by the spouse of her schools' principal - held a public hearing on a possible smoking ban - not even officially proposed yet - and heard from plenty of the some 80 people there. Perhaps we'll be able to go to restaurants and bars over there eventually and not worry about smoking- or perhaps the principal and her husband will get caught in a small-town political firestorm over the proposal (hopefully Yes on the first, and No on the second).
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My school district in Indiana did send us out flyers/notices that the school campuses will be smoke free and the school district was willing to tell you about smoking cessation classes.
-- Stephanie
Are you talking about public school campuses??! I thought public schools are supposed to be smoking free! Anyway, last year, our school AP caught a cafeteria worker smoking on campus (that's what I heard) and so the admins posted "NO smoking" signs all over campus. It was kind of funny.
Now when we travel, we still try to remember which states have smoking/non-smoking sections. We're now so used to FL's no-smoking in all restaurants.
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