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[Ilsanman]

Ok, apparently, they are making a huge effort to make Seoul a 'smoke-free' city. Good luck.

I recommend this article. It gave me many a laughs.

[SHANE02]

hahahaha

shit, they can't even enforce traffic law.

[SHANE02]

Actually I love the acceptance of the filthy habbit here.

[Xuanzang]

When samgyopsal flies...

[diver]

[Omkara]

Hey, it's a start.

I know that some Koreans loathe the second-hand-smoke-in-your-face culture. I watched some idiot on a bicycle, the other day, roll up right next to a grandmother, at the crosswalk, and, while we were waiting for the cross signal, he lit up. All his smoke was blowing in her little, now fiery, face. She pinched her nose and walked deliberately and angrily away from the idiot, making a silent statement about smoking and the fool's poor manners.

I felt a sense of gratification that it is not only me, a foreigner, who gets enraged at the oblivious smoking culture here.

[Yaya]

Many Korean husbands say they quit after marrying or don't smoke around their families at home (smoke in the veranda or balcony).

I have absolutely NO sympathy for smokers PERIOD!

[Bibbitybop]

[Tiger Beer]

Yeah, right.

In a city where SMOKERS regularly sit and create smoke clouds in the NON-SMOKING section of every PC-Bang and no one ever says anything.

[VanIslander]

there is nothing like seeing a grown man squat while wearing a shiny suit and smoking a fag

[Xuanzang]

[itaewonguy]

HAAHHAHAHAHAAHHA

yeah right! the same guys who you need to convince to pass these laws are all smokers! GOODLUCK

[Omkara]

[sojourner1]

I can't see Korea going smoke free since I've seen it a thousand times where it's tolerated for smokers to break the nonsmoking rules in restaurants and public areas. It's so tolerated in Korea to smoke anywhere that crusty men such as principals and other office staff smoke on school grounds, often at the front door, around children even though the doors may have a non-smoking listed on them. When I was teaching for hagwon, the bus drivers did that too and even smoked while driving as I went on field trips and then they'd hang out and smoke with the kids such as in a persimmon patch when we picked persimmons.

Even in the nice new gym I workout at, when I entered the locker room yesterday, someone was in the shower room smoking and when he walked out in full clothes and dry, a big cloud followed him. That would be good if they made it nonsmoking in bars and restaurants, but it's questionable if the law would be enforced. I love going to bars such as 3 Alley for a good beer, but it's a cigarette smoker hang out and makes me want a smoke again. Korea smells like a big cigarette with wafts of straight up funky ass and burnt plastics. It's smoky here.

In the states in many cities, it really is nonsmoking in bars and restaurants and they'll have you arrested for a $500 fine if you try it. In some cities, you're not suppose to even smoke anywhere in public nor while driving around. In said college town city of Columbia, Missouri where you can't smoke in public just 20 miles from where my sister lives, it is OK to smoke marijuana discreetly since it's decriminalized and most people get stoned though still technically illegal.

[Bibbitybop]