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Gopher · Joined: 04 Jun 2005

Jesucristo! I feel like I'm in Chile again. I realize that having a non-smoking area in the PC Bang is like having a no-peeing section in the pool. But dammit, man, if the air isn't at least a little easier to breathe in the non-smoking section.

So here I am in the non-smoking section and the middle-aged dude next to me lights up and starts puffing away, squinting his eyes as only smokers do, playing his Special Forces "computer game."

I say, "no smoking" and do the X sign that they all understand. Waves his arm at me. Fine.

I go to the desk and the clerk has no idea what I'm trying to say. Finally, I just ask her to come with me. She follows. I stop in front of the dude and point. She goes "Oh!" She tells him "no smoking here" and he waves his arm at her, too.

Finally after an argument, he puts out his death stick, resenting both of us.

What the F, over. Yes, smokers have a right to smoke. But don't non-smokers also have the right not to smoke?

pet lover · Joined: 02 Jan 2004 Location: not in Seoul

That's the biggest reason I bought myself my own computer. I just couldn't take the smoke-filled pc bangs with the men (Korean AND foreign) thinking it's their right as a human to pollute my air.

Grotto · Joined: 21 Mar 2004

PC bangs, cigarette smoke and bad music repeatedly played at ear splitting volume....nuff said!

joe_doufu · Joined: 09 May 2005 Location: Elsewhere

Today I saw three dudes outside a 7-11 doing the "i'm a manly man pose" with the left hand holding the cigarette to their lips and blowing smoke on passersby. Then they lowered their cigarettes and licked the ice cream lollypops in their right hands. Then repeat. I laughed out loud.

funplanet · Joined: 20 Jun 2003 Location: The new Bucheon!

Remember...rules do not apply to Koreans..they are "special"

jaganath69 · Joined: 17 Jul 2003

its one of the reasons I dig living here, most rules are optional.

vlcupper · Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Location: Gangnam

ed4444 · Joined: 12 Oct 2004

In China I was on one of their new imported buses with sealed windows and airconditioning. There was a no smoking sign of course.

5 minutes into a 10 hour journey the smoking and spitting started in earnest. The airconditioning was not turned on and I had to just suffer as there was a busload of smokers without any ventilation.

I swear I lost about a year of my potential lifespan on that journey.