Social Irresponsibility III (smoke-free area)

There was some changes in the kopitiam experience in Jul after our garman imposed some restrictions on smoking and eating at the same time. So interestingly, the smoking community also had to adjust their eating and smoking habits in kopitiams that are too small to segregate an isolated space for these smoking crowd....

So imagine, if you have twenty tables, maybe 1-2 of these tables will be allocated as smoking areas.... they must be physically separated from the other tables. So in some outdoor MacDonalds, they simply put up a wooden barrier with alot of holes in it and hang some fake green figs around it to decorate it.... therefore, if you are seated behind the "barrier" you will still SMELL the smoke as it will definitely flow through the holes of the barrier and you will still be 10cm from that smoker.... :(

Got one evening, an adventurous smoker-friend showed us how he can by-pass this no-smoke-in-resturant rule can be BENT without any penalities... ha ha ha....

We were at an alfresco dining venue, next to us is a waist-height barrier to separate the resturant from the public pedestrian walkway.... and when he was seated opposite to us, it is considered ILLEGAL for him to smoke... but the moment he stands up, walk behind that tiny-mini barrier next to us.... he can smoke his lungs out. ha ha ha.....

One evening, we were having dinner with Otterman and ended up in one kopitiam withOUT a designated area for smokers, so what do they do? They stood under a tree, 10m away from the crowd, smoking away.... and guess which direction the wind was coming from??????? The smokers to the EATERS!!!! aiyo..... we were all breathing in smoke-laced air, blown by the wind... yes, our cloths have a faint tinge of cigarettes smell....



this smoke-ban thing around kopitiam like not very effective hor?

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